
53 Becoming Superhuman: Unlocking the Science of Ultimate Human Performance with Steven Kotler
The School of Greatness
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How Does Flow Have a Creative Trigger?
flow has a creative trigger it probably actually has more than one the research is very early days on this. creativity is essentially two things it's pattern recognition what creativity is recombinatory you taking an old idea bumping into a new thought or a new new information and creating something totally new so that requires pattern recognition which actually releases dopamine and creative requires risk which also releases dopamine so creativity is a phenomenal flow trigger. All 15 are in the book people pick it up you'll be going to be able to get access to all that, I can definitely testify to how addictive being in the flow state was for me as an athlete.
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