Coming up on the Mark Devine show, it's so focused on what you're doing on the task

of the day.

Everything else just starts to melt away.

Action awareness, you're going to merge your sense of self, self-consciousness, the voice

in your head most importantly, you're going to get really quiet, you're going to diminish.

Usually you just get so sucked into what you're doing that five hours go by in five minutes,

it shows up in combat, action sports, and throughout all aspects of performance, mental

and physical goes through the risk.

Hi, this is Mark Devine and this is the Mark Devine show.

On this show, I talked to folks from all walks of life to figure out what makes people

courageous and how to operate it at peak performance in a volatile and certain complex and ambiguous

world.

Today we're going to talk about peak performance aging with Stephen Collar and we're going

to look into his new book called Nar Country, Growing Old Staying Rad.

Once a New York Times best-selling author, award-winning journalist and executive director

at the Flow Research Collective, he's one of the world's leading experts on human performance

and flow.

He's also co-founder, along with his wife Joy, of the Buddy Sue Hospice Home for Old

Dogs, which is a canine care facility and rescue facility, and also the Rancho de Chihuahua

dog rescue in Sanctuary.

Steve, thanks for joining me today.

So good to see you again.

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