53 Becoming Superhuman: Unlocking the Science of Ultimate Human Performance with Steven Kotler
The School of Greatness
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Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Flow?
Flow is a four-stage cycle and a number of the stages in flow don't feel flow at all. The first stage is known as struggle with name that like Harvard was led by Herbert Benson who did a lot of the foundational research on neurobiology. Most people screw up very often when they get into flow they feel like superman but then suddenly it goes away because the neurochemicals have a very short lifespan in your brain. You can't do a lot of drugs days in a row because of this same thing of flow.
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