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Dissolving the Ego

By Jules Evans — 2017

You don’t need drugs or a church for an ecstatic experience that helps transcend the self and connect to something bigger

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Train Your Brain to Work Like Elon Musk, Eric Schmidt, and Top Navy SEALs

According to ‘Stealing Fire’ authors Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal, there’s a new $4 trillion high performance revolution fueling the Navy’s SEAL Team Six and high profile executives in Silicon Valley and Wall Street to the top of their game but no one on the mainstream level knows about it...

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Jade Scipioni
2017
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Five Surprising Ways Richard Branson Harnessed Flow to Build a Multi-Billion Dollar Empire

A few months back, Jamie had the chance to travel down to Sir Richard Branson’s Caribbean paradise, Necker Island, where he sat down with the Virgin magnate to discuss the role flow has played in helping shape his multi-billion dollar empire.

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Steven Kotler
2014
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How to Hack Your Brain (for $5,000)

Sinewy and tanned from a life of outdoor pursuits, Mr. Wheal was offering attendees the chance to “upgrade” their nervous systems to meet this incontrovertible information overload. How? With “flow.” But what is flow?

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Casey Schwartz
2017
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The High-Tech Race to Make Deadly Adventure Sports Safe for Anyone

Risky pursuits like BASE jumping offer a buzz better than any drug. New technologies provide the same rush without the danger.

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Jamie Wheal , Steven Kotler
2017
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Science Can Help You Reach Enlightenment—but Will It Mess with Your Head?

For a long time, research into flow states was subjective—researchers had to rely on people’s self-reported experiences to understand altered states of mind.

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Stefanie Cohen
2017
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Create a Work Environment that Fosters Flow

Everywhere we look in business, timetables once measured by calendars can now be clocked by egg timers. So how can we keep up? In a word—and according to an ever-increasing pile of evidence—“flow."

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Steven Kotler
2014
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Biohacking: The Key to Optimal Performance?

Are Silicon Valley CEOs who “hack” their lifestyle cracking the code of productivity, or are they simply risking their health? Dr Saleyha Ahsan, presenter of Trust Me, I’m a Doctor and Panorama, explains.

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Saleyha Ah
2021
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Is Grief Mental Illness? With Psychiatric Changes, Maybe

Normal bereavement and major depression share many of the same symptoms. And because of those similarities, psychiatrists have historically carved out what is known as a "bereavement exclusion." Its purpose was to reduce the likelihood that normal grief would be diagnosed as clinical depression.

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Tim Townsend
2013
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The Five Types of Avoidance

It's normal for human beings to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Some of the ways in which we seek to avoid pain are adaptive or healthy.

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Jessica Dore
2018
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DSM-V: Interview With Social Worker Joanne Cacciatore, PhD, FT

I believe that social workers need to focus on that which we are trained to do: extend civic love and compassion to the client, staring where he or she is. We are not wed to the medical model; social work is ecological, psychosocial, and systems oriented.

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Georgianna Dolan-Reilly
2013
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