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Steven Kotler: Extreme Flow States for Humans & Dogs - #173

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

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The Evolution of Nonverbal Cross-Species Communication

The new thinking is that flow may have evolved as a communication technology. If you don't have perfect communication, if you've never run with a pack of dogs or wolves through the backcountry and you're not in flow, you're going to be tripping all over dogs. There's also research on this and it's done at the University of Arizona. And what they were looking at is an anamine, right, which is one of the chemicals that shows up in flow.

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