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TODAY´S EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FLOW RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

Are you an entrepreneur, a leader, or a knowledge worker, who wants to harness the power of flow so you can get more done in less time with greater ease and accomplish your boldest professional goals faster? If you've answered this question with “hell yes” then our peak-performance training Zero to Dangerous may be a good fit for you. If this sounds of interest to you all you need to do is go to getmoreflow.com right now, pop in your application and one of our team members will be in touch with you very soon. 

ABOUT THE GUEST:

Dr. Sahar Yousef’s lab studies the science of productivity and performance and how to “Make Superhumans.” She trains busy leaders and their teams to apply these strategies to get their most important work done, in less time, with less stress.

 

Dr. Sahar’s expertise include the neuroscience of focus and distraction, energy management, burnout prevention, prioritization and schedule optimization, high-performance nutrition, creativity and innovation, learning and memory, sleep efficiency, nootropics and performance-enhancers, long-term habit formation, remote work.

 

ABOUT THE EPISODE: 

In this episode, you will learn about:

How Dr. Sahar help leaders (1:20)

The 4 Layers of Performance (2:58)

How To Sustain Peak Performance (4:48)

Misconceptions About Remote Work (14:08)

The Phenomenon of Cognitive Neuroplasticity (29:12)

From Academia to Business World (35:50)

Solution for Burnout (41:38)

RESOURCES

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saharyousef/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/becomingsuperhumanlab

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STEVEN KOTLER is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and Founder and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance.

His books include The Art of Impossible, Stealing Fire, and The Rise of Superman. His work has been translated into over 40 languages and appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, The Harvard Business Review and Forbes.

TODAY´S EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FLOW RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

Are you an entrepreneur, a leader, or a knowledge worker, who wants to harness the power of flow so you can get more done in less time with greater ease and accomplish your boldest professional goals faster? If you´ve answered this question with “hell yes” then our peak-performance training Zero to Dangerous may be a good fit for you. If this sounds of interest to you all you need to do is go to getmoreflow.com right now, pop in your application and one of our team members will be in touch with you very soon. 

ABOUT THE GUEST:

David is a physical therapist with a PhD in Neuroscience. He studied computational neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, MIT and NYU. He is currently the Director of Rehabilitation Innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System, and an Associate Professor of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He develops innovative rehabilitation solutions for adults and children in need of better healthcare accessibility. He also works with high performance partners such as Red Bull, the Brooklyn Nets NBA team and the US Olympic team to use evidence-based technologies to improve athletic performance. He is the author of Hacking Health: How to make money and save lives in the HealthTech world. In 2019, he was named "Global Australian of the Year" for his contributions to healthcare.

ABOUT THE EPISODE: 

In this episode, you will learn about:

Medical field’s innovation is slowing down (1:29)

Tech that Dr. David is most excited about (7:47)

David’s book dedication (12:57)

Concussion’s effect to cognitive performance (23:31)

What dysautonomia is (32:25)

Action Steps for Long COVID (40:50)

Autonomic Fitness (45:01)

Controlling the Autonomic Nervous System(49:33)

 

RESOURCES:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PutrinoLab

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STEVEN KOTLER is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and Founder and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance.

His books include The Art of Impossible, Stealing Fire, and The Rise of Superman. His work has been translated into over 40 languages and appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, The Harvard Business Review and Forbes.

TODAY´S EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FLOW RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

Are you an entrepreneur, a leader, or a knowledge worker, who wants to harness the power of flow so you can get more done in less time with greater ease and accomplish your boldest professional goals faster? If you´ve answered this question with “hell yes” then our peak-performance training Zero to Dangerous may be a good fit for you. If this sounds of interest to you all you need to do is go to getmoreflow.com right now, pop in your application and one of our team members will be in touch with you very soon. 

ABOUT THE GUEST:

Dr. Alan Barnard is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, strategy advisor, research scientist, app developer, author, lecturer, podcaster, lifelong learner and coach. 

Alan is considered one of the world’s leading Decision Scientists and Theory of Constraints experts. His research focuses on understanding why good people make, and often repeat bad decisions, and how to avoid these.

Alan is the CEO of Goldratt Research Labs, which he co-founded with Dr. Eli Goldratt, creator of Theory of Constraints and author of THE GOAL. GRL’s goal is to help individuals and organizations make better faster decisions when it really matters. From their research, Alan and his team has developed the range of award-winning Harmony Apps. Their clients include Fortune 1000 companies, Government Agencies and people from over 70 countries that are using their apps to make difficult life and business decisions.

For more information, visit www.dralanbarnard.com, www.goldrattresearchlabs.com, www.harmonyapps.com  and www.tocodyssey.org 

ABOUT THE EPISODE: 

In this episode, you will learn about:

Multitasking Doesn't Work (03:08)

Challenge basic assumptions (14:37)

5 Steps to better decision making (20:33)

Defining problems properly (31:41)

Eliyahu Goldratt & his research (33:26)

Counterintuitive Theory of Constraints (38:38)

How Dr. Alan helps organizations (45:25)

Theory of Constraints Parent Category (52:44)

 

Social media Handles

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dralanbarnard/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dralan.barnard

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dralanbarnard 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dralanbarnard 

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STEVEN KOTLER is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and Founder and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance.

His books include The Art of Impossible, Stealing Fire, and The Rise of Superman. His work has been translated into over 40 languages and appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, The Harvard Business Review and Forbes.

TODAY´S EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FLOW RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

Are you an entrepreneur, a leader, or a knowledge worker, who wants to harness the power of flow so you can get more done in less time with greater ease and accomplish your boldest professional goals faster? If you've answered this question with “hell yes” then our peak-performance training Zero to Dangerous may be a good fit for you. If this sounds of interest to you all you need to do is go to getmoreflow.com right now, pop in your application and one of our team members will be in touch with you very soon. 

ABOUT THE GUEST:

Elliott Bisnow and Jeff Rosenthal are co-founders of Summit Group, whose family of organizations include Powder Mountain, Summit Series, Summit Junto, and Summit Impact.

 

The Summit Series is an American organization that hosts conferences and events for young entrepreneurs, artists and activists. Events organized by the group include an annual invitation-only conference during which participants discuss topics including business practices, technological innovation, and philanthropy.

 

ABOUT THE EPISODE: 

In this episode, you will learn about:

What contributed to Summit’s Success (02:14)

Different Worlds Merging at Summit (06:04)

Group Flow in Summit (10:58)

Online VS In-Person Connection (15:08)

Risks of Creating Summit (18:50)

Bill Clinton Speaking at Summit (25:42)

The Most & Least “Flowy” Summit Events (28:39)

What Makes Summit Unique (36:52)

What’s Next for Jeff & Elliott (39:54)

Building a Community From Scratch (43:07)

Group Flow between the founders of Summit (52:49)

 

RESOURCES

Jeff Rosenthal’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/-jeff-rosenthal/

Elliott Bisnow’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliott-bisnow-17b96a3/

Summit’s Website: https://summit.co/

 

STEVEN KOTLER is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and Founder and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance.

His books include The Art of Impossible, Stealing Fire, and The Rise of Superman. His work has been translated into over 40 languages and appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, The Harvard Business Review and Forbes.

TODAY´S EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FLOW RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

Are you an entrepreneur, a leader, or a knowledge worker, who wants to harness the power of flow so you can get more done in less time with greater ease and accomplish your boldest professional goals faster? If you've answered this question with “hell yes” then our peak-performance training Zero to Dangerous may be a good fit for you. If this sounds of interest to you all you need to do is go to getmoreflow.com right now, pop in your application and one of our team members will be in touch with you very soon. 

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Today we bring you an oldie but goodie from our FRC Radio archives! 

"The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile”. ~ Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar

Did you know that the researcher who coined the term flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, was not even on the hunt for flow? He was looking for something bigger: Happiness.

What he found, however, was that the people with the most flow in their lives are the happiest people.

Today, we are going super deep on the topic of flow and happiness with our guest, Tal Ben-Shahar.

Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar is an American and Israeli teacher, author, and entrepreneur in the areas of positive psychology and leadership. In this episode, you will learn about:

The 5 elements of happiness (6:01)

Does flow enhances well being? (8:34)

The challenge-skills balance (10:49)

Habits & Rituals (12:01)

The importance of practicing happiness (13:39)

Habits & spiritual wellbeing (15:33)

Meaning in life vs. Meaning of life (21:18)

Common sense is not so common (23:22)

Perceptual shift & flow (26:30)

The foundation of happiness (28:31)

The research of happiness (36:32)

Key habits within the physical, intellectual, and emotional well being (39:46)

The biggest shifts that are made through Tal Shahar course (46:42)

Leadership development at scale (49:55)

 The 3 elements of positive psychology, happiness, peak performance, and leadership development (51:45)

Happiness as the overarching North Star for life (58:13)

ABOUT THE GUEST

Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar is an author and lecturer.  

He taught two of the largest classes in Harvard University’s history, Positive Psychology and The Psychology of Leadership. 

Today, Tal consults and lectures around the world to executives in multi-national corporations, the general public, and at-risk populations. 

The topics he lectures on include leadership, happiness, education, innovation, ethics, self-esteem, resilience, goal setting, and mindfulness. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages, and have appeared on best-sellers lists around the world. 

Tal is a serial entrepreneur and is the co-founder and chief learning officer of Happiness Studies Academy, Potentialife, Maytiv, and Happier.TV.

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If you order Steven's new book, The Art of Impossible, right now, you’ll get $1,500 of free bonuses immediately dropped into your inbox. They include secret chapters he has never released, masterclasses on key skills to help you jack up motivation, heighten creativity, and accelerate learning. You’ll also get an entirely free training to help you fight distraction and spend more time in flow. So click the link here, snag yourself a copy of The Art of Impossible, and let’s get after it. 👉 https://www.theartofimpossible.com/

TODAY´S EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FLOW RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

Are you an entrepreneur, a leader, or a knowledge worker, who wants to harness the power of flow so you can get more done in less time with greater ease and accomplish your boldest professional goals faster? If you've answered this question with “hell yes” then our peak-performance training Zero to Dangerous may be a good fit for you. If this sounds of interest to you all you need to do is go to getmoreflow.com right now, pop in your application and one of our team members will be in touch with you very soon. 

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"Self-actualization can be thought of as what is the creative potential that you uniquely have that if realized, will really show the uniqueness of yourself." ~ Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman

 

ABOUT THE GUEST: 

Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D., is a cognitive scientist and humanistic psychologist exploring the mind, creativity, and the depths of human potential. He is the founder and director of the Center for the Science of Human Potential and is an Honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Wellbeing Science. 

He is the author/editor of 9 books, including Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization, and is the host of the #1 psychology podcast in the world— The Psychology Podcast— which has received over 20 million downloads. 

Dr. Kaufman received a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Yale University and has taught courses on intelligence, cognitive science, creativity, and well-being at Columbia University, Yale, NYU, the University of Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. 

In 2015, he was named one of “50 groundbreaking scientists who are changing the way we see the world” by Business Insider.

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STEVEN KOTLER is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and Founder and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance.

His books include The Art of Impossible, Stealing Fire, and The Rise of Superman. His work has been translated into over 40 languages and appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, The Harvard Business Review and Forbes.

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If you order Steven's new book, The Art of Impossible, right now, you’ll get $1,500 of free bonuses immediately dropped into your inbox. They include secret chapters he has never released, masterclasses on key skills to help you jack up motivation, heighten creativity, and accelerate learning. You’ll also get an entirely free training to help you fight distraction and spend more time in flow. So click the link here, snag yourself a copy of The Art of Impossible, and let’s get after it. 👉 https://www.theartofimpossible.com/

TODAY´S EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FLOW RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

Are you an entrepreneur, a leader, or a knowledge worker, who wants to harness the power of flow so you can get more done in less time with greater ease and accomplish your boldest professional goals faster? If you've answered this question with “hell yes” then our peak-performance training Zero to Dangerous may be a good fit for you. If this sounds of interest to you all you need to do is go to getmoreflow.com right now, pop in your application and one of our team members will be in touch with you very soon. 

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"ADHD folks make lots of Theta, they can see the solution or the elegant thing or jump over the linear into the insightful and the creative, and they are very good at that. Not so good at sinking into the sweet spot, where the arousal level, the creativity level, the focus level, and the activation level are all dialed in perfectly and you have control over a present set of resources. Because that requires internal maintenance in some way, you have to keep yourself in a zone, in a mode. That’s hard to do." ~ Dr. Andrew HillABOUT THE GUEST:

Founding Director of Peak Brain Institute and Lead Neurotherapist.

Dr. Hill is one of the top peak performance coaches in the country. He holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from UCLA’s Department of Psychology and continues to do research on attention and cognition. Research methodology includes EEG, QEEG, and ERP.  He has been practicing neurofeedback since 2003.

In addition to founding Peak Brain Institute, Dr. Hill is the host of the Head First Podcast with Dr. Hill and lectures at UCLA, teaching courses in psychology, neuroscience, and gerontology. 

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If you order Steven's new book, The Art of Impossible, right now, you’ll get $1,500 of free bonuses immediately dropped into your inbox. They include secret chapters he has never released, masterclasses on key skills to help you jack up motivation, heighten creativity, and accelerate learning. You’ll also get an entirely free training to help you fight distraction and spend more time in flow. So click the link here, snag yourself a copy of The Art of Impossible, and let’s get after it. 👉 https://www.theartofimpossible.com/

TODAY´S EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FLOW RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

Are you an entrepreneur, a leader, or a knowledge worker, who wants to harness the power of flow so you can get more done in less time with greater ease and accomplish your boldest professional goals faster? If you've answered this question with “hell yes” then our peak-performance training Zero to Dangerous may be a good fit for you. If this sounds of interest to you all you need to do is go to getmoreflow.com right now, pop in your application and one of our team members will be in touch with you very soon. 

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"I believe inspiration is when we see something in others that we  don’t think we can do ourselves or we can’t comprehend how we would do it… We just don’t know the strength we have within us to cope with incredible things." ~ Dr. Karen Darke

ABOUT THE GUEST:

Dr. Karen Darke MBE, MA, Ph.D. Karen’s purpose is to support people in transforming a challenge into an opportunity. With a deep understanding and lived experience of how trauma and life events can create stress, fear, and dis-ease, Karen has a passion for helping people move beyond perceived limitations towards expansive possibility.

“Ability is a state of mind not a state of body” infuses Karen’s approach. A climbing accident that resulted in paraplegia led her away from studying gold as a ‘rock-doctor’ into becoming a ‘mind miner’, exploring experientially how we can learn to be our own alchemist and transform the ‘mud’ of life to discover ‘inner gold’. Karen likes to shine a light on the meaning of challenge and on the limitless possibilities of the human spirit, enhancing performance, wellbeing, and meaningful contribution to the connected web of the world.

Exploring the boundaries of what is possible is something Karen has personally embraced. Her curiosity for what it takes to overcome self-doubt, face fear, and step-up performance has led her to her own experiments in high-performance sport and also in pushing the boundaries of adaptive adventure exploration. She becameParalympic hand-cycling champion (Rio 2016), World Champion in Paratriathlon, a silver medalist in her first Paralympic games (London 2012), and is the Guinness World Record holder for land speed by arm power, each time requiring deep engagement with her intrinsic motivational stack. She has also sit-skied across Greenland, sea kayaked at extreme latitudes of the planet, handcycle across the world's big mountain ranges and with coastlines and rivers of all the continents. These experiences combined with unique studies of the mind, resilience, and performance have led to helping people view life as an adventure, and to embrace all its’ experiences as opportunities to learn and grow.

Whilst hand-cycling and adventurous journeys are Karen’s primary flow activities, coaching and expanding possibilities for others is her second. She is fascinated with the power of the mind and language to positively impact emotions; improving presence, performance, and possibility. Much of her spare time is leading Quest 79, a community-focused organization with the aim of creating and supporting inspirational projects that connect people and communities to enhance inner gold and possibility.

Karen has an MBE, a Ph.D. in Earth Science, an MA in Development Training, and a second MA in High-Performance Coaching, and Diplomas in Clinical & PastoralCounselling, Hypnotherapy & Motivational Coaching. She has been awarded honorary doctorates from The University of Aberdeen, Leeds, Cumbria, Sheffield Hallam, and Abertay Universities, in recognition of her contributions to adventure and high-performance sport. She has written three biographical-based books about overcoming challenges, facing fear, and positive psychology tips for achieving surprising things: If You Fall; Boundless; Quest 79: Find Your Inner Gold.

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If you order Steven's new book, The Art of Impossible, right now, you’ll get $1,500 of free bonuses immediately dropped

TODAY´S EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FLOW RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

Are you an entrepreneur, a leader, or a knowledge worker, who wants to harness the power of flow so you can get more done in less time with greater ease and accomplish your boldest professional goals faster? If you´ve answered this question with “hell yes” then our peak-performance training Zero to Dangerous may be a good fit for you. If this sounds of interest to you all you need to do is go to getmoreflow.com right now, pop in your application and one of our team members will be in touch with you very soon. 

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"Dopamine is the reward chemical… Talking about your goals out loud actually gives you that dopamine, so you get the reward without having to do the work. " ~ Steven Kotler 

ABOUT THE GUEST:

STEVEN KOTLER is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and Founder and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance.

His books include The Art of Impossible, Stealing Fire, and The Rise of Superman. His work has been translated into over 40 languages and appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, The Harvard Business Review and Forbes.

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If you order Steven's new book, The Art of Impossible, right now, you’ll get $1,500 of free bonuses immediately dropped into your inbox. They include secret chapters he has never released, masterclasses on key skills to help you jack up motivation, heighten creativity, and accelerate learning. You’ll also get an entirely free training to help you fight distraction and spend more time in flow. So click the link here, snag yourself a copy of The Art of Impossible, and let’s get after it. 👉 https://www.theartofimpossible.com/

TODAY´S EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FLOW RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

Are you an entrepreneur, a leader, or a knowledge worker, who wants to harness the power of flow so you can get more done in less time with greater ease and accomplish your boldest professional goals faster? If you´ve answered this question with “hell yes” then our peak-performance training Zero to Dangerous may be a good fit for you. If this sounds of interest to you all you need to do is go to getmoreflow.com right now, pop in your application and one of our team members will be in touch with you very soon. 

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"The master switch for endurance is your subjective perception of effort. "  ~ Dr. Alex Hutchinson

ABOUT THE GUEST: 

Dr. Alex Hutchinson is an author and journalist in Toronto. His primary focus these days is the science of endurance and fitness, which he covers for Outside (where he is a contributing editor and writes the Sweat Science column), The Globe and Mail (where he writes the Jockology column), and Canadian Running magazine. He has also covered technology for Popular Mechanics (where he earned a National Magazine Award for his energy reporting) and adventure travel for the New York Times, and was a Runner’s World columnist from 2012 to 2017.

His latest book, published in February 2018, is an exploration of the science (and mysteries) of endurance. It’s called ENDURE: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance. Before that, he wrote a practical guide to the science of fitness, called Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights? Fitness Myths, Training Truths, and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise, which was published in 2011. He also wrote Big Ideas: 100 Modern Inventions That Have Transformed Our World, in 2009.

He actually started out as a physicist, with a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge then a few years as a postdoctoral researcher with the U.S. National Security Agency, working on quantum computing and nanomechanics. During that time, he competed as a middle- and long-distance runner for the Canadian national team, mostly as a miler but also dabbling in cross-country and even a bit of mountain running. He still runs most days, enjoys the rigors of hard training, and occasionally races. But he hates to think how he’d do on an undergraduate physics exam.

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If you order Steven's new book, The Art of Impossible, right now, you’ll get $1,500 of free bonuses immediately dropped into your inbox. They include secret chapters he has never released, masterclasses on key skills to help you jack up motivation, heighten creativity, and accelerate learning. You’ll also get an entirely free training to help you fight distraction and spend more time in flow. So click the link here, snag yourself a copy of The Art of Impossible, and let’s get after it.

👉 https://www.theartofimpossible.com/