Steven Kotler, author of Mindvalley’s ‘The Habit of Ferocity’ talks at A-Fest Jamaica about flow and how it can create peak performers.
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Once you begin meditating daily, life as you knew it will begin to take on some interesting twists and turns.
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Here, the man who literally wrote the book on flow presents his most lucid account yet of how to experience this blissful state.
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