Steven Kotler - Find Your Flow State

00:00 | Trailer
02:35 Brian’s thoughts on the episode
04:55 Brian’s introduction
05:28 Flow — who experiences it
08:58 What flow is
16:18 Flow state in high-level sport
19:16 Flow hacking
26:11 Why Steven thinks it is important that we all embrace the concept of flow
31:26 Steven is very optimistic about the future, but one thing scares him the most
36:42 How people can be encouraged to be more active in saving the planet
37:11 Steak grown from stem cells will take over from steak grown on the hoof; vertical farming is happening
40:38 Stop having children, voluntarily, for five years, adopt, and let technology catch up
43:11 Survey of the similarities between flow and psychedelics
49:15 How Steven, a journalist, became involved in flow,57:39 Steven explains how horrible Lyme disease is and how it led him to realize the healing power of flow
1:03:53 Steven’s eureka moment realizing there was neural biology explaining quasi-mystical experiences
1:08:10 This is the most exciting time in neural science, there is so much to be discovered
1:09:43 The Flow Genome Project is decoding the neural biology of flow and open sourcing it to the world
1:10:14 The difficulties experienced in getting flow science taken seriously by academia, for further research
1:13:36 Science is a blood sport
1:14:50 What Steven hopes to achieve with his writing style and subject matter and the joy it gives him
1:17:44 The 2020 goals and further goals for the Genome Project
1:27:56 The different scenarios where group flow can occur
1:32:05 Flow is so rewarding, meaningful and addictive and people who have it score high in well-being
1:34:05 Training individuals and within companies how to access a flow state
1:39:29 Mindfulness apps and modern technology and multitasking are counter-productive to flow
1:40:24 Flow is not like self-help, you are playing with the most addictive neural chemicals on earth
1:45:03 Steven’s daily practices
1:51:52 His love for and work with animals and the frustrations for entrepreneurial work in New Mexico
2:00:38 Best and worst days of his life
2:06:44 What scares him
2:11:04 What is surprising to learn about Steven Kotler
2:13:05 Surprising insight into Steven’s early life revealed by a phone call to his twenty years old self
2:15:23 Success Secrets
2:16:05 Memories of Hunter Thompson
2:23:30 Advice to the 20 years olds watching about what they should focus on
2:26:46 Collaboration versus competition regarding the environment
2:29:50 Brian’s summing up.