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Peak Performance Aging: Growing Old, Staying Rad with Steven Kotler

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The Challenge Skills Balance Is Flow

The ideal sweet spot is when the challenge is about 4%. This allows you to stretch, but not snap. As we age, that challenge skills spot tends to shrink. The reason is a allostatic load, which is essentially the impact of trauma over time on your nervous system and your physiology.

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