Flow States and Peak Performance Aging with Steven Kotler
High Performance Health
The Power of Flow
"Flow" is an optimal state of consciousness where you feel our best and we perform our best. McKinsey found that top executives were 500% more productive when in flow than out of flow. The US Department of Defense does a study on soldiers in flow, how much faster do they learn? 240 to 500% faster than normal work done by ourselves at Harvard or some of the University of Sydney.
Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective, as well as being one of the world’s leading experts on human performance.
Steven joins Angela this week to talk about peak performance and longevity, specifically focussing upon how to optimise peak performance aging, as well as how to access flow states, and what factors may be holding you back from achieving them.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- A study has found that by accessing flow states, we can make ourselves 500% more productive and thereby achieve far more in far shorter a time.
- Many think that in order to push through to a productive state, you have to steel yourself and find resilience. But this is a recipe for burnout.
- Flow is the optimal state of consciousness where everything outside of your task just fades away - time dilates and we experience a freeze-frame effect. We get so sucked into what we're doing that time has no meaning.
- As we move into flow, different things happen to the brain. A deactivation of the pre-frontal cortex takes place, which manipulates the way we experience time.
BEST MOMENTS
'When most people think about motivation, the only tool they reach for is grit'
'We don't just gain mastery in flow, but also wisdom and empathy'
'Flow is an optimal state of consciousness'
'When there's more dopamine in the brain, time speeds up. When there's less, time slows down'
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ABOUT THE GUEST
Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance. Steven is the author of eleven bestsellers (out of fourteen books), including The Art of Impossible, The Future is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, Bold and Abundance. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, translated into over 50 languages, and has appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, TIME, and the Harvard Business Review. Alongside his wife, author Joy Nicholson, he is also the co-founder of The Buddy Sue Hospice Home for Old Dogs, a canine elder care facility, and Rancho de Chihuahua, a dog rescue and sanctuary.
ABOUT THE HOST
Angela Foster is an award winning Nutritionist, Health & Performance Coach, Speaker and Host of the High Performance Health podcast. A former Corporate lawyer turned industry leader in biohacking and health optimisation for women, Angela has been featured in various media including Huff Post, Runners world, The Health Optimisation Summit, BrainTap, The Women’s Biohacking Conference, Livestrong & Natural Health Magazine.
Angela is the creator of BioSyncing®️ a blueprint for ambitious entrepreneurial women to biohack their health so they can 10X how they show up in their business and their family without burning out. Angela’s BioSyncing®️ Blueprint is currently closed. Click here to get on the waitlist.
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