Flow State

“The idea of flow or a flow state, it's the highest form of the human condition, right? If you want to look at what human beings are capable of just go find people who have ever been in flow.”

“Because I know thousands of the most successful people in the world, and nobody, not a single one of them, have said they achieved it through flow state.”

“One way to talk about it is kind of three key things that Have components that are important of themselves. They also kind of reinforce each other. So flow state is one of them. Cognitive load is another, and then feedback loops are another.”

“It helps them keep in the flow in terms of, instead of details and line by line writing, they're in the flow in terms of what's my goal. What are the pieces that I need to get there? How quickly can I get there? So then I can step back and kind of evaluate eve…”

“You get in a deeper flow state when you use your voice.”

“The parasympathetic is associated with flow, and I wanted to find that it's not being calm, okay? It's being open, engaged, aware, and able to be receptive to the needs of the moment.”

“That's what a story will do. It draws you in, and it keeps you there, and it's almost like the artist was probably in flow state when they wrote it. If they can get you into flow state where you forget about everything else. Dude, that's magic.”

“Flow states are simultaneously The deepest form of attention that a human being can provide. And once you get into it, they're the least difficult form of attention.”

“Flow begins at the edge of your comfort zone. You will hugely increase your chances of tapping in to this very deep source of flow that we have within us.”

“If anybody has ever experienced the state of flow, it is like the state of flow multiplied by a hundred times. Like you can sit there and focus on something and nothing could ever distract you away from it. You have tunnel vision in what you're doing.”

“A lot of time you get so engrossed in what you're doing that you just forget to eat. You forget to go to the restroom. You forget what time it is. You forget the, you know, you should sleep, or you forget to pay that bill because you become completely obsessed…”

“When they talk about flow state, I distinguish two kinds of flow state. One's an absorbed flow state where you're so interested in an activity and you're focused one pointed attention and you're kind of go into it and then time you look up and an hour's gone b…”

“Well, flow is where you're padding recognition and your decision making is at its peak. Your mental endurance increases and your overall performance is much better.”