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53 Becoming Superhuman: Unlocking the Science of Ultimate Human Performance with Steven Kotler

The School of Greatness

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The Dark Side of Flow

The dark side of flow is really what we talked about it's the fact that we don't you have to understand that there's a four stage cycle. The struggle phase on the front end can drag on forever when you know what they really need to do is lateralize and go into something tangentially related which will kick them into a flow easier. There are a lot of ways to avoid thedark side of flow but most people who are not as driven suffer from problems because 4% is too hard for many high performers. You're going to zip pass 4% without even noticing so try to go to 10% better 20% better right? I could talk about this forever but I want to

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