Quote by Steven Kotler Download Open image ““If you want to trigger flow, the challenge should be 4 percent greater than the skills.”” — Steven Kotler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“Because deliberate practice requires working where challenges exceed skill, and flow is most commonly experienced when challenge and skill are in balance. And,” — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Every challenge presents a good chance for learning something new.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“It is the skills that you have acquired through difficulties that will give you the desired result.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Firstly, don't see challenge as a chore or as work, but change your mindset to value obstacles and barriers as puzzles to solve.” — Magnus Steele Copy Share Image
“When you face a new challenge, remember the skills, talent, guts and resources that got you through before.” — Lynn A. Robinson Copy Share Image
“No matter how big the challenge, you can really only do the next little bit of it.” — Ros Savage Copy Share Image
“If you had to choose, which would it be? Loads of success and validation or lots of challenge?” — Carol S. Dweck 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 caught on. In the 1980s, shelters were euthanizing twenty million animals each year. But then birth rates dropped and admission rates dropped, and today, while the three to four million animals they kill annually is a… — 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 Image
The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops. — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 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 report moving… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
