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

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Flow Triggers and Performance Benefits

The locus really is in your epinephrine system. It's attentional regulation, right? It's that I use him flexibility. You need some of that flexibility. Same thing, by the way, with a psychedelic state and how this happens will flow,. flow needs to be in that Goldilocks zone that inverted U curve between a firing just right. We've been trying to figure out why we're so much more likely to get high levels of dopamine than low ones. And it definitely seems like the triggers are more tied to phasic dopamine than they are to the LC and the system. That may have more to do with the need to fight this need to approach than anything

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