Steven Kotler | Aging and Peak Performance: How Flow Can Help You Thrive at Any Age
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The Development of Flow in Children
In traditional psychology, you'll hear people talk about the action perception or the perception cycle. But it turns out that's exactly backwards. We don't perceive the world and then act on our perceptions; we use our actions to test our perceptions. This feeds directly into how we learn. In fact, just say you want to learn a foreign language. If you couple the words with gestures, right, I'm trying to learn, you know, whatever it is. And when you're saying the word yourself, you coupled the meaning with a gesture, you will learn it much faster. That is a pterodactyl effect. It's a way for us to open up this motor learning
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