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Flow State Onset: Unraveling the First Few Seconds of Flow with Steven Kotler & Dr. Michael Mannino

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The Art of Impossible Flow

Joyce: So I want to drill down into this framework that you've come up with. What we're talking about really is a high stakes or a high risk scenario that has lots of different flow triggers, right? So the challenge skill balance is there. We believe that usually that actually means literally quit literally triggering the fight response. And it's not just saying yes to the fight and approaching. It's a sense of I got this versus oh my God, I'm going to get my ass kicked. Now you can go into a situation and think you're going to get your ass kicked and still try and then end up in flow on the back end of it. But it's much

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