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How Important Is Sleep For Organizations?

By Vicki Culpin — 2016

Following her key-note presentation at the Zukunft Personal 2016, we chat with Professor Vicki Culpin about her work on how sleep affects personal and organisational performance. Professor Vicki Culpin is the Dean of Faculty and Director of Research and a member of the Ashridge Leadership Team.

06:46 min

Mind Gym: An Athlete’s Guide to Inner Excellence

In Mind Gym, noted sports psychology consultant Gary Mack explains how your mind influences your performance on the field or on the court as much as your physical skill does, if not more so.

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Gary Mack, David Casstevens
2002
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Peak Performance: Mental Training Techniques of the World’s Greatest Athletes

A leading sports psychologist and a veteran sports writer examine the new mental training techniques of Russian and Eastern European athletes and detail exercises that allow everyone to benefit from those techniques.

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Charles A. Garfield, Hal Zina Bennett
1985
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What Is a Flow State?

If you have ever felt completely absorbed in something, you might have been experiencing a mental state that psychologists refer to as flow. Achieving this state can help people feel greater enjoyment, energy, and involvement.

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Kendra Cherry
2022
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11 Activities and Exercises to Induce a Flow State (+ 6 Examples)

Flow state is losing yourself in the moment; when you find your abilities are well matched to an activity, the world around you quietens and you may find yourself achieving things you only dreamt to be possible.

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Elaine Houston
2021
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How To Enjoy Studying: Flow

FLOW is a state of total absorption in an activity where the individual is so focused that nothing else seems to matter. Time flies by and the activity becomes a joyful, even ecstatic, experience.

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Stefan Goldfinch
2015
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How To Reach Flow State (Using 10 Flow State ‘Triggers’)

Think about the last time where you were engaged in an activity and you simply lost track of time. You were focused like a ninja, you felt amazing and it seemed as if there was nothing else on this planet besides you and your activity.

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Jari Roomer
2019
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The Art of Impossible : A Peak Performance Primer

Bestselling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler decodes the secrets of those elite performers—athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs and more—who have changed our definition of the possible, teaching us how we too can stretch far beyond our capabilities, making impossible dreams much more...

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Steven Kotler
2024
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Rise Of Superman

In this groundbreaking book, New York Times–bestselling author Steven Kotler decodes the mystery of ultimate human performance.

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Steven Kotler
2024
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The Man Who Found the Flow

“What is happiness?” asked psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He found it in a state of mind beyond results and rewards and called it “the flow.”

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Andrew Cooper
2021
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It’s Great to Be ‘In the Zone’ — While Working, Exercising and Creating Art. Here’s How to Get There.

In the 1960s, psychologist Abraham Maslow became the first academic to write about what he called “peak experiences,” moments of elation that come from pushing ourselves in challenging tasks.

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Jessica Wapner
2019
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