Chapter 10FLOW FOLLOWS FOCUS
Steven Kotler is regarded by many, myself included, as the world's leading authority on all things flow‐related. He is a multi‐award–winning author and heads up a group of neuroscientists and performance psychologists at the Flow Research Collective. If you want a full immersion into the subject, he runs a phenomenal programme called Zero to Dangerous. He asks a great question: “How the hell do you know if you're in flow?”
He talks about how the research of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and a few other scientists, uncovered 10 core characteristics that underpin the state. Interestingly, he points out that while each of these phenomena can be experienced independently, when they all show up together—that's flow. The ...
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