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🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Casey Adams show. Today I'm joined by Stephen Kotler. |
0:07.2 | Stephen is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the executive director of the Flow Research Collective. |
0:14.6 | Thank you so much for coming to the show, Stephen. |
0:16.6 | It's good to be with you, Casey. |
0:18.7 | Well, I've been so fascinated with your work, Stephen, and I've listened to other podcasts |
0:24.3 | that you've been on. |
0:25.0 | And I'm really excited to dive into, you know, the whole realm of human performance with |
0:30.8 | you. |
0:31.1 | And before we dive into your story and in that whole world, I would love for you to give the |
0:35.9 | audience some context of what the flow |
0:37.8 | research collective is and a little bit of a high level understanding of what the work that |
0:41.8 | you do. |
0:43.5 | Perfect. |
0:44.7 | So I'm the executive director of the flow research collective and we study the neurobiology, |
0:50.5 | big word, neurobiology of peak human performance. |
0:53.4 | In other words, we study what's going on in the brain and the body when people are performing at their very best. And our work is mostly focused on the state of consciousness known to researchers as flow. You may call flow by a lot of other names. Runnerside being in the zone. |
1:10.9 | If the basketball is being unconscious, if you're a jazz musician, you're in the pocket. |
1:14.8 | The lingo is sort of endless. It refers to, technically, it's an optimal state of consciousness. |
1:19.7 | We feel our best and perform our best. More specifically, it's any of those moments of |
1:23.6 | wrapped attention and total absorption. You get so focused on what you're doing so focused on the task again everything else just starts to melt away right self-consciousness sense of self-diminishes |
1:33.1 | time passes strangely sometimes occasionally get that freeze frame effect my name has been in a car crash |
1:38.4 | much more frequently just get so sucked into what you're doing that five hours go by in like five |
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