Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow. — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“Those highlight moments forever seared in your memory: that too is group flow in action.” — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“In flow, we are so focused on the task at hand that everything else falls away. Action and awareness merge. Time flies.… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“Risk heightens focus and flow follows focus. This means that the fight-or-flight response primes the body—chemically and psychologically—for the flow state. Athletes… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“Flow is an alternative path toward mastery, but, like any path, not without its pitfalls. There’s a serious dark side to flow,” — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“This is another reason why flow states significantly enhance performance: when the “self” disappears, it takes many of our limits along for… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
That’s why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“This is a very important point. Flow carries within it delicious possibility. In the state, we are aligned with our core passion… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“And the dark night of flow is an issue that society has not made particularly easy to handle. How many people have… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“When you strip everything else away, technology is nothing more than the promise of an easier tomorrow. It’s the promise of hope. And how… — Steven Kotler Copy Share
“With the prefrontal cortex down-regulated, most impulse control mechanisms go offline too. For people who aren't used to this combination, the results can be… — Steven Kotler Copy Share
“of the benefits of spaying and neutering, it wasn’t until the 1990s that their catchy tag line, “Less born, less killed, less cruelty,” really… — Steven Kotler Copy Share
“The quality most desirable in a CEO? According to a global survey conducted by IBM of 1,500 top executives in sixty countries: creativity.” — Steven Kotler Copy Share
The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops. — Steven Kotler Copy Share
“According to the official numbers, shelters take in somewhere between six million and eight million dogs and cats every year and euthanize about half… — Steven Kotler Copy Share
“This means flow packs a double punch: it doesn’t just increase our decision-making abilities—it increases our creative decision-making abilities. Dramatically.” — Steven Kotler Copy Share
“A quick search on Google yields over 11.5 billion hits for the word “time.” In comparison, more obvious topics of interest like sex and… — Steven Kotler Copy Share
“Risk heightens focus and flow follows focus. This means that the fight-or-flight response primes the body—chemically and psychologically—for the flow state. Athletes report moving… — Steven Kotler Copy Share
“Our limits are governed by flow’s ability to amplify performance as much as by imagination’s ability to dream up that performance.” — Steven Kotler Copy Share
“As it turns out, what makes a dog adoptable has very little to do with dogs, a great deal to do with humans.” — Steven Kotler Copy Share
“happiness raises nearly every business and educational outcome: raising sales by 37 percent, productivity by 31 percent, and accuracy on tasks by 19 percent,” — Steven Kotler Copy Share
“Given that seven of the top twenty most-visited sites on the Web are porn sites, and that nearly 33 percent of all Internet searches… — Steven Kotler Copy Share
“Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness,” — Steven Kotler Copy Share
