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#190 How to Age Like a Badass: Steven Kotler's Gnarly Guide to Breaking Your Personal Impossible

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When You Talk About Yourself, the Ego Turns Back On

When you're in flow, one of the core things that happens in the brain is the prefrontal cortex deactivates. When you talk about yourself, when the ego gets activated, the ego is all about the prefrontal cortex and it turns it back on. So what we said is this was, we did it with both ourselves and then when we taught people or ran that experiment, this was also, this was a rule and it was really weird for people.

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