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How to Access Flow State On-Demand

Long considered to be an elusive state that is found versus created, the idea of flow is seen by most as a mystical occurrence unlocked by athletes in fleeting moments or gurus who pursue enlightenment like a full-time job. Fortunately, it’s neither.

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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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Are We About to Unlock the Secrets to Peak Performance?

“How many surf bums who can’t keep a job washing dishes will be up at 5 AM putting on a gritty, sandy wetsuit to paddle out in cold, sharky water for just one shot at a barrel? That’s motivation. If you could bottle that, then what’s possible?”

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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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Jamie Wheal Is Austin’s Cassandra of Techno-Optimism

He became a guru in the city’s self-optimization scene, hobnobbing with the likes of Elon Musk. But will anyone listen to his warnings about the movement that brought him renown?

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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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Steven Kotler And Jamie Wheal: What You Can Learn From Top Performers

I spoke to both Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal, coauthors of the national bestseller Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work, about why they focused on performance enhancement for their book, their four accelerating...

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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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Dissolving the Ego

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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Inside Silicon Valley’s New Non-Religion: Consciousness Hacking

I saw spiritual attainment and I thought, ‘That does not need to be religious. That can be scientific.’

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