When you get into flow, they've found that you don't use more of your brain like we used to think,

oh, we're only using 10% of our brain. We need to use more of it. In fact, in the flow state,

we go into localized transient hypofrontality where the part of the brain that makes us human

actually starts to shut down and we concentrate effort in

the thing that we're supposed to be doing. So we lose our sense of self-consciousness or that

Irish thing. Well, look at your man. We forget about that entirely. You perform five times better

in flow than you do whenever you're in the struggle phase.

The Mark Pollock story is not just about a man who lost it all, recovered, only to suffer

a more devastating loss from which he would rise again.

It's about a man who looked at paralysis and asked, can we work together to find a cure for this thing?

The Mark Pollock Trust, the charity, collaborative cures run in the dark,

and the master classes he offers as a public speaker now

are all born out of this simple idea.

Face the facts, consider the potential and be prepared to

collaborate with others to find answers to difficult questions. In this very strange time where

we are all trying to transition out of lockdown and hopefully the pandemic itself when a lot of us have lost things and people

we previously based our identities upon. I thought there's never really been a better time

to have Mark Pollack back on the podcast to hear the full conversation and our previous

conversation from 2017 where Mark explains the full extent of what

he went through and the leaps and bounds that have been made towards finding that cure for paralysis,

there's only one place to go.

Patreon.com forward slash Irishman abroad.

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