The Science of Doing Your Best Work

You don't really know what you're capable of'cause you can only find out inside a flow. I'm curious how you would define flow. Flow is a scientific definition and Mi Hai chick sent me high as the one who came up with that definition, but It's technically defined as an optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best. It me refers to Any of those moments of rapt attention and total absorption where you get so focused on what you're doing, so focused on the task at hand, that everything else just starts to fade away and disappear. All aspects of performance, mental, physical, and emotional, will skyrocket. What does a flow state feel like?

So this is actually the original work that Me High Chick Sent Me High did on flow. He went around the world asking people about the times they're like when they felt their best and they performed their best, and you discovered that Flo has six core characteristics. So there's complete concentration on the task at hand. There's a merger of action awareness.

Uh Time distortion. Uh We don't feel peak performance on the inside, we feel a sense of control. So a sense of I can control things I can't normally control, that's what it feels like, right? You look at Michael Jordan in a flow state, you see the

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