Most people think that flow state works like a light switch –– you’re either in the zone or you’re not.

In reality, flow is part of a cycle, which has four phases. And unless you’re willing to go through the full cycle, it’s impossible to experience flow and sustain high performance.

The flow cycle is your ticket to accessing flow state every day. In this video, I’ll share each step of the flow cycle, and how to avoid the BIGGEST mistake that blocks people from accessing flow every day.

ABOUT ME

Rian Doris is the Co-Founder & CEO of Flow Research Collective, the world’s leading peak performance research and training institute focused on decoding the neuroscience of flow states and helping leaders and their teams unlock flow states consistently.

Clients include Accenture, Audi, Facebook, Bain & the US Airforce. Along with being listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 Rian's thought leadership has been featured in Fast Company, PBS and Big Think and he hosts Flow Research Collective Radio, an iTunes top 10 science podcast.

Rian is also the Executive Chairman & Owner of Consulting.com — whose mission is to make entrepreneurship learnable so that anyone can start their own business. On the side, Rian does some angel investing in health and performance companies like Levels Health, Neurohacker Collective & Myodetox.

Rian holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) from Trinity College Dublin, an MSc in Neuroscience at King's College, London and an MBA.

Rian is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham in Applied Ethics—focusing on issues in Effective Altruism, specifically longtermism and the question of what our ethical obligation is to future generations.

Prior to co-founding Flow Research Collective with Steven Kotler, Rian worked with NYT Bestselling Author Keith Ferazzi, and 12X NYT Bestselling Author Dr. Dan Siegel, a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.