Flow is defined as an optimal state of consciousness, where you feel and perform at your best. This episode will help you get more of it in your day.

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• Related episodes

  • #12 Rian Doris & Conor Murphy: Flow — Cultivating the optimal experience of life (part 2)

• People & orgs

  • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  • David Kadavy

  • Cal Newport

  • Flow Research Collective

• Books

  • Mind Management, Not Time Management

  • Deep Work

  • Flow

  • The Power Of Full Engagement

• Other resources mentioned

  • Steven Kotler - FAQs on Flow

  • Adam Grant - The Other Side of Languishing Is Flourishing. Here’s How to Get There.

  • David Kadavy: Arrange your time and tasks according to these seven mental states, and you’ll be a creativity machine

  • Brain.fm - music designed to help you focus

  • Focus (app)

  • Freedom (app)

  • Apple releases iOS 15 with Focus mode and more

  • Cal Newport's Time Block Planner

  • Fantastical (app)

  • Incubation stage of creativity