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Riding the Wave: How to Sustain Flow

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The Effects of Exercise on the Prefrontal Cortex

The brain wants more energy for focus in the present moment, and it's got a fixed energy budget. What you're talking at flow is transient hyperfertility activation of the prefrontal cortex. For example, dopamine and norepinephrine do a lot of different things in the brain. They tune signal the noise ratios to amplify pattern recognition.

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