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Steven Kotler - Find Your Flow State

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Steven Kotler, the New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist and director of research at the Flow Genome Project. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the high performance state known as “Flow”, and his writing has appeared in over 100 publications, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Wired and TIME. His bestselling books include The Rise of Superman, Tomorrowland, and Abundance as well as the Pulitzer Prize nominated Stealing Fire and A Small Furry Prayer.
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Chapters

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.

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