Name: How to use ‘flow state’ to do the impossible | Steven Kotler
Uploaded: 2022-08-18T18:26:30.000Z
Duration: 6 min 29 s
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One of the really incredible things about being human is

It comes as a fundamental part of being human.

And what I mean by that is getting our biology

in all education is to get our nervous system

We're all capable of so much more than we know.

When we hear something impossible has been done,

"Well, what would it look like when I did it?"

And my latest book is "The Art of Impossible."

There's something in psychology and neuroscience

This is the idea that you have to believe something

Roger Bannister was the first person to run a sub four mile.

And before he did it, this was a great, crazy impossible.

TV ANNOUNCER: May 6th, a British medical student

Roger Bannister earns sports immortality,

the first man to break the legendary four minute barrier

running a mile in three minutes, 59, and four tenth seconds.

- They really thought the first person who did it

And then a month later, somebody breaks his record.

And within five years, teenagers have done it.

So you gotta ask yourself, "What the hell happened?"

for running a sub four mile haven't changed.

What used to be impossible is now seen as possible.

there's a very, very, very tight coupling

between our psychology and our physiology.

with the patterns we're gonna perform ahead of time.

When we actually start to perform those patterns,

you're gonna get dopamine from pattern matching.

And flow is an optimized state of consciousness

where feel our best and we perform our best.

This idea dates back all the way to Goethe

but Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is often referred

And he went around the world talking to people

about the times in their lives when they felt their best,

Everywhere he went, people said the same thing.

They said, "You know, when I'm at my best,

"effortlessly, perfectly, seamlessly from the last."

So that's where the term flow comes from.

When psychologists wanna know if you were in flow,

"Was there complete concentration on the task at hand?"

"Was there a merger of action and awareness?"

And this is an experience we all have, right?

You get so sucked into what you're doing,

you look up, and five hours go by in like five minutes.

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How to use ‘flow state’ to do the impossible | Steven Kotler

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