Achieve Peak Performance, Find FLOW & Do The Impossible | Steven Kotler

André Duqum August 8, 2023
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Welcome to the Know Thyself Podcast 🕊️🙏🏽 My name is André. My friends call me Dre. I have devoted my life to the love of wisdom & the wisdom of love. As far as I am concerned, the purpose of this whole game of life is to reveal where we are not free & to liberate ourselves from the illusions that keep us bound. I’ll introduce you to people, ideas and tools to support your time here on earth.

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Steven Kotler reveals the secrets to achieving peak performance and discovering the transformative power of flow. He shares his insights behind what flowstate is, whether it's the same as a meditative state, and how we can train ourselves to experience it regularly. He discusses procrastination, dopamine addiction, and why clarifying our passion and purpose in life is essential for achieving our dreams. Steven describes the 4 stages of flow, and how we can engineer our environment to provide the ideal space to experience it. He also dives into the mystical side of flow, and explores the mystery behind what it actually is. ___________ Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 2:15 Is Flowstate a Spiritual Experience? 8:10 Defining Flowstate 9:34 Using Your Procrastination for Optimal Performance 13:57 Why Breaking Dopamine Addiction is Essential, and How to Do It 17:52 Clarifying your Passion and Purpose to Motivate You 22:21 Combining Passion & Purpose and Stacking Motivation 26:03 The One Mistake Everyone Makes on Purpose 32:09 How to Turning Work Into Play 41:56 Learning New Things: Conscious Competency 53:46 Micro vs Macro Flow: Flow in Our Daily Life 1:00:25 4 Stages to Achieve Flowstate 1:01:55 Setting Up Your Environment for Flow 1:09:29 Manicuring Your Internal Space for Flow 1:19:26 Group Flow: Maximizing Creativity with Others 1:25:12 The Mystical Side of Flow 1:36:40 Conclusion ___________ Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance. He is the author of 11 bestsellers (out of fourteen books), including The Art of Impossible, The Future is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, Bold and Abundance. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, translated into over 50 languages, and has appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, TIME, and the Harvard Business Review. A lifelong environmentalist and animal rights advocate, Steven is the cofounder of Planet Home, a conference/concert/innovation accelerator focused on solving critical environmental challenges, the cofounder of The Forest + Fire Collective, a network of individuals, organizations and institutions dedicated to ending catastrophic wildfire and restoring forest health to the American West. Alongside his wife, author Joy Nicholson, he is also the co-founder of Rancho de Chihuahua, a hospice care and special needs dog sanctuary. Website: https://www.stevenkotler.com Books: https://www.stevenkotler.com/books Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevenkotler/ ___________ Know Thyself Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/ Website: https://www.knowthyself.one Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ4wglCWTJeWQC0exBalgKg Listen to all episodes on Audio: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4FSiemtvZrWesGtO2MqTZ4?si=d389c8dee8fa4026 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/know-thyself/id1633725927 André Duqum Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreduqum/ Meraki Media https://merakimedia.com https://www.instagram.com/merakimedia/

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