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Why Do Dolphins Get Stoned? The High Performance Benefits of Altered States – Jamie Wheal (Encore)

The New Man

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Exstasis

What state of mind are you in when you're putting that time in? That's what really governs how much we're going to learn and how quickly. We lose our inner monologue, because that part of our prefrontal cortex goes quiet timelessness. Effortlessness means that all o the reward and learning neuro chemicals, from endorpins to dope, mean write to anandamite saratone and oxytote. Keep doing more of this neuro chemistry lets us feel sort of self propelled. And then there is richness, it refers to the amount of information that we tend to have access to.

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