It's an emerging experience, and as such, you know, we don't go from, you know, zero to sixty, and none of us goes from zero to sixty.

People keep thinking about, like, dropping into flow, like, that's not happening.

Flow is the version you've got to be able to up the context.

Hello, and welcome to the Psychology Podcast.

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Later on in this episode, I'll talk a lot more about the perception box and how it relates to this episode.

But right now, let me tell you about today's guest.

Today we welcome Orrin Davis to the podcast.

Orrin earned the first doctorate in positive psychology, and is a self-actualization engineer, who enables people to do and be their best.

As the principal investigator of the quality of life laboratory, he conducts research on flow, creativity, hypnosis, and mentoring.

Dr. Davis consults for companies from startups to multinationals on hiring strategies, culture, innovation, and employee well-being.

He's the author of Team Flow, the psychology of optimal collaboration.

In this episode, I talked to Orrin Davis about the new science of flow.

A lot of people are familiar with the concept of flow, but according to Orrin, the experience of it is not very common.

We discuss Mihai chick sent Mihai's work, and how Orrin is expanding the research of flow by studying it at a group level.

He talks about how we can increase the chances of experiencing flow for both individuals and teams.

We also touch on the topics of micro-flow, hypnosis, absorption, positive psychology, and of course, my favorite, self-actualization.

It was a really great fun chatting with Orrin.

I've known him for quite some time, and the field of psychology, for some reason, doesn't have a lot of research on the science of flow.

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