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Helped 100,000+ professionals access flow state, including execs at Google, Meta and Accenture | CEO of Flow Research Collective | Owner

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@RianSweetDoris
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1 year
Einstein. Elon Musk. Sam Altman. The world’s most productive people have one thing in common: They unlock flow state on demand. Use this evidence-based system to tap into it yourself:
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Sweatpants Kill Productivity. Here’s Why. Ever keep working when you should be relaxing? This not only wastes your time––it wrecks your performance. I’ll show you five ways to solve this for more productivity, but first, know this: Without boundaries, we're never fully on or
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@RianSweetDoris
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A genius that’s distracted will accomplish less than a fool in flow state.
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Billionaire: How to Be Productive If you want Elon-level productivity, here's what a billionaire taught me: Do less than you think for longer than you think. I learned this through luck. Ever heard of Pendulum Summit? It's a high-performance event in Ireland, with an entrance
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The flow state makes hard work feel easy.
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Stop Focusing! Do This Instead. Stop focusing! It’s killing your creativity. Here’s what to do instead: Release. This is part of the flow cycle. Flow takes place as part of a four-stage cycle: Struggle, release, flow, and recovery. First, you struggle with a task, which
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Win Forever by Pete Carroll via @YouTube
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Less Mental Activity > More Productivity Operating on overdrive but achieving less? The problem might be how your brain is working. Most professionals think they have to exert maximum mental effort to be productive. The research shows the opposite is the case. It’s
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Journaling prompt I’ve been using: “If my life was a thousand years long, and my goal was to have the greatest impact possible, what would my gameplan be?” Often the gameplan that you find on a 1000 yr timeline is doable within a 100 yr life.
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How do we remove this flow blocker? Use this golden rule... Flow Before Phone: Get 2+ hours of flow on your highest priority task before touching your phone.
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Focus On One Thing. Some time ago, I grew my training company into an eight-figure organization by staying focused on one thing and saying no to distractions. However, success brought opportunities, leading me astray.
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Consistently accessing flow leads to an autotelic life, where work is done for its own sake, shifting your perspective on possessions. While you may still value objects like surfboards or guitars, they become tools for flow rather than goals themselves.
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3 Tricks to 4x productivity
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I Read 10,000 Research Papers on Flow I read over 10,000 research papers on flow state. Here’s what I discovered: Accessing flow consistently and at will is a learnable skill. We’ve all experienced flow. Chances are, the best work you’ve ever done happened during flow.
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How Billionaires Succeed Elon Musk may not know what happens once we reach Mars, but that doesn't stop him from working to get us there. This one word is killing your results: Uncertainty. You know the feeling: You’re working hard on a project, but you have no idea how it’s
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3 neurological protocols to re-focus after getting distracted: 1) Take three deep breaths through your nose while humming. This produces nitric oxide, which counteracts distrait. 2) If that's not enough, reduce friction with clear goals––a flow trigger. Break the task down
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Intense focus is not enough to overcome distractions. For optimal performance, you need to remove distractions physically. That’s because any physical distraction depletes your cognitive capacity, making focus (and flow) harder to maintain. Empty physical space = empty
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Are You Scrolling Now Instead of Working?
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The research shows that the average worker only gets 46 hours of real work done in a month. With these science-backed techniques, you can exceed that Month’s worth of work in less than a day. This revolutionary method is explained in my new YouTube video.
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Mastering the art of placing tasks in one of two buckets—the 'trough' or the 'chornotype zone'—will change your life and ensure peak performance throughout your whole day.
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What do: • Einstein • Elon Musk • Oprah All share in common? They understand flow states:
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Friction disrupts flow. Searching for files or untangling cords causing stress spikes. Clear your workspace of friction for seamless flow. Access items easily and minimize distractions. Simplify your setup, like using one monitor to focus attention.
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How To Recharge for Maximum Productivity
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How To Take Breaks That Keep You 98% Productive. The way you take breaks matters. Your breaks should be more boring than the work you are breaking from. This will force your brain to crave getting back to work for stimulation.
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What's the first thing you look at in the morning? If you're like 80% of people, you check it within 15 minutes of waking. It's packed with many flow blockers such as: • Distraction • Attention deficit trait • Task persistence deficit You guessed it... it's your phone.
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The 10-minute rule that makes hard work feel like TikTok. This simple trick will save you from doom scrolling. Watch more long-form videos on my YouTube channel. The link is in my bio.
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Stop Sitting While You Work
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The Best Productivity Hack in The World Sleep is the best productivity hack in the world. This mindset will lead you to new levels of peak performance. Without enough sleep, your brain operates as though you're legally drunk. Hustling at the cost of sleep is like trying to win
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Environments strongly influence mental states. They are capable of triggering powerful associations. By leveraging classical conditioning, you can intentionally cultivate laser-like focus in your workspace.
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Sleep Timing > Sleep Hours Some days you’re on point and insanely productive. On other days, you can hardly function. Sometimes this is because of poor sleep. But usually, the problem is deeper: It comes down to syncing, not sleeping. This is known as circadian misalignment.
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Jet Lag Taught Me a Skill That Changed My Life. A flight from Barcelona to LA taught me a simple habit that made me 400% more productive.
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I Tried This “Billionaire Morning Routine"
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Overwhelmed? Do THIS. Can't get a grip on your day? You know the feeling: ‘Running in place' despite giving it your all. This is called “overwhelm.” Overwhelm is caused by VUCA: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. Now consider Silicon Valley. When I first moved
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How to Enter Flow State in 60 seconds
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Pillar #2 : Flow Proneness This is your likelihood to access flow at a given moment. Research shows flow proneness is highest in the morning. The theta/delta brain waves of sleep are similar to the alpha/theta brain waves of flow. Schedule your day to take advantage of this.
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Some time ago, I grew my training company into an eight-figure organization by staying focused on one thing and saying no to distractions. However, success brought opportunities, leading me astray.
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The Most Overlooked Motivation Superpower. Stop using the wrong kind of motivation. It works against you and destroys your results. Instead, do this to reprogram your brain to love hard work.
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The Top 1% Manage Their Time Like This You get way more done by working fewer hours than you usually do- here's how.
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Dopamine: Reframing what once was boring
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Over the past 10+ years, I've tried the morning routines of biohackers and billionaires. Turns out, they all got it wrong. Here's what I did instead: Most of us have fallen prey to the ”morning routine dilemma”: Biohackers optimize their mornings to an insane degree but end up
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1. Flow Blockers prevent flow from occurring 2. Flow Proneness is your tendency for flow 3. Flow Triggers are preconditions leading to flow 4. The Flow Cycle is the process of entering, experiencing, and exiting flow Apply these pillars to become consistently productive.
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Why The Top 1% Work Less, Not More. Perceived importance is a flow trigger. To unlock insane focus on command, you must make your brain think the task at hand is your ultimate priority. Here's how to do just that.
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The Psychological Glitch Holding You Back The more we identify with possessions, the more our ego is at risk. Neuroscientific studies reveal the "endowment effect," where ownership increases perceived value, possibly stemming from ancestral survival instincts.
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The reason you are not able to access flow every day: your recovery protocol sucks. Flow state is part of a four-phase cycle: 1) Struggle 2) Release 3) Flow 4) Recovery To flow every day, you need to move through the full cycle: Most professionals get recovery wrong. To
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How to get into flow every day with the Flow Cycle: (become insanely productive) Most don't realize that flow is not like a light switch – either on or off. Instead, it occurs as part of a four-stage cycle. Herb Benson, a Harvard cardiologist, first discovered this. Steven
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Dispersion dilutes focus, overloads the mind, and leads to decision fatigue. When I divided my attention, everything suffered: ventures stalled, my PhD felt impossible, and my book remained disjointed.
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Do you know why we procrastinate? Hint: it’s not because of a lack of willpower or motivation. It’s just your brain misreading its own signals. Fix this, and you’ll get into flow faster. It starts with the flow cycle. Flow isn't a binary. It's a cycle: struggle, release,
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A Simple Trick To 10x Your Attention When in between tasks, settle into the present moment. We can train our focus and desensitize ourselves to dopamine in these parts of our day.
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Though work immersion and social media scrolling differ greatly in outcomes, they share a common trait: effortless exertion. The feeling that time is standing still while in reality hours have gone by.
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Most people look for their passion by asking, 'What do I like doing?' This is the wrong approach. Instead, ask, 'What am I good at?' If you do something you're good at long enough, it'll become your passion.
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Rushing creates rushing. Flow creates flow. Use this and break free from time anxiety.
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5 ways to use caffeine to trigger flow state: 1. Condition yourself by only drinking coffee before flow blocks. 2. Wait 30-90 minutes after waking up before ingesting caffeine. 3. Drink just enough caffeine to feel focused, but not jittery. 4. Combine caffeine with L-theanine.
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Why Your Work is So Hard Sometimes Your problem isn’t your endless to-do list. It’s “Work Self-Discrepancy.” You're logging long hours with relentless hustle, checking off tasks like there's no tomorrow, but your heart is like, “What's the point?” This is the bane of “Work
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The Top 1% Stop Working. Recovery is vital to peak performance. This means either living fully on and in the zone or fully off and recharging. Never be in between.
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A Simple Way To 4x Your Productivity. Work compression is the productivity superpower you've never heard of. Increasing your working hours lowers efficiency; instead, do this.
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For three years, my life fit in a single black backpack. From Ireland to Barcelona to Mexico City, mornings were seamless as I dived into my passion project. Steve Jobs epitomized this minimalist philosophy, focusing on work rather than possessions.
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Installing 10,000+ new AI tools won't make you more productive. But using AI as a shortcut to flow state will. How to use AI to get into flow faster: To understand how AI can help you get into flow, we first need to take a step back: What keeps you from getting into flow in
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The Hidden Enemy of Productivity The hidden enemy of peak productivity is the belief you need to do more, not less. I learned this in Ireland during college. After a night of heavy drinking, I could meticulously reduce the hangover effects. Hydrating, refueling, light
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Working more doesn’t help you get into flow more. Rather, recovery is the ceiling on flow. That’s because the neurochemical balance of flow is expensive for the brain to produce. So, to get more flow, replenish your dopamine after each work session: Walk, cold shower, or
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How to Handle Stress Like Elon Musk Imagine Elon Musk juggling SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink, while some teenager sweats bullets at the fast-food drive-thru. Both are under incredible pressure, but who’s more stressed? Enter the Stress Plateau Paradox. We tend to think that
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Achieve Elon-Level Productivity Ever struggled for 8 hours on a task that should've taken 90 minutes... and still didn't finish? Science explains why – and how to solve it. To achieve Elon-like productivity, leverage the four pillars of flow––which can make you 5x more
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The Bannister Effect
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Never Do This if You Want Flow Rushing gets you nowhere faster. Rushing is caused by a cognitive bias known as "time-saving bias:” People tend to overestimate the time saved by hurrying and underestimate the mental toll it takes. And it takes a toll. Rushing overworks our
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We are evolutionarily wired for flow. Our biology wants us to drop into it when conditions necessitate it. But the distractions of our 21st century lifestyle prohibit it. Minimize distractions to maximize flow (and performance).
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3 Tricks To Be More Productive
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Gamers and athletes achieve remarkable focus for hours thanks to "flow," where time stands still. Bugha's 16-hour Fortnite win and Alex Honnold's lengthy climbs showcase this effortless focus.
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Is Waking up at 5:00 AM Harmful? Can the 5:00 a.m. club actually harm your productivity? What matters is consistent sleep timing, not early hours. Here’s how to dial in your sleep timing, mitigate fatigue, and get more flow. When you go to bed at the same time and wake up at
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How to Avoid Burnout In an era that celebrates Elon Musk's sleepless nights, we’ve lost sight of one crucial aspect of performance… and it’s burning us out. The World Health Organization recently recognized burnout as a real, chronic condition, linked directly to the stress of
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Pillar #1 : Flow Blockers Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the father of flow psychology, discovered we're evolutionarily wired for flow. We can tap into it under the right circumstances. But unfortunately for us 21st century humans... We face loads of flow blockers in our daily work.
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Most people never persist through struggle long enough to experience flow. A simple solution: Attention Span Stretching. Fight your urges to distract yourself. Your brain will get more sensitive to attention-regulating neurotransmitters. Watch as you are rewarded with flow.
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Stop Scrolling. Do This Instead. Take boring breaks. Spiking your dopamine while on a task makes it harder to get back to work and will tank your focus and performance.
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The 25% Rule Will Change Your Life. Optimize your workspace for focus with positional variance. Aim for a balance of standing (50%), walking (25%), and sitting (25%).
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Active Recovery: The Key To Productivity
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As I grew up, I daydreamed about splurging on extravagant shopping sprees. However, much like running a marathon where you initially strive to reach the finish line but eventually find joy in the act of running itself, my perspective shifted.
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Mastery is the ability to endlessly improve at what you do by skills acquisition. To accelerate progress down the path to mastery, pinpoint all the skills and sub-skills that align with your long-term goals.
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The Top 1% Do This Every Morning. Billionaires don't have morning routines. They wake up in a flow state and immediately work. Here's how you can do the same...
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The 4% Rule Will Change Your Life. The most reliable way to enter a flow state is by tuning the challenge skills balance in your task. Here's how to do just that and unlock maximum productivity.
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Triple Your Productivity Tonight Every productivity hack in the world is useless without this one thing. In fact, science shows that this one thing is the easiest way to triple your productivity With more of this one thing, you get more flow––which boosts productivity,
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What Is an Existential Crisis? via @YouTube
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What separates high performers from low performers isn’t the amount of distractions they experience: It’s the speed of their Attention Recovery. Preventing all distractions is impossible. Instead, learn to re-focus as fast as possible.
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How To Actually Recharge for Maximum Productivity
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It’s not ADHD that’s killing your productivity. It’s ADT––Attention Deficit Trait. Our focus mechanism works through the release of neurochemicals like norepinephrine and dopamine. But in our modern world… …digital distractions squander all that productive neurochemistry.
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This Dog Will Teach You a Life Changing Lesson. Dispersion splits focus, leading to weakened efforts across multiple tasks. Like Aesop's fable of the dog chasing its reflection, it illustrates the danger of chasing illusions while losing sight of what's truly valuable.
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Distractions Are Your Training Ground.
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A Small Trick To Stay In Flow State All Day.
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Stop Feeling Guilty About Work. Productivity guilt is an epidemic that plagues ambitious people. Lashing yourself about how you didn't work hard enough in your day is actually killing your results. Here's the cure.
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Do This for Unlimited Productivity.
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You don't need to sell all your belongings to access the Flow State. Instead, by selectively minimizing possessions and valuing flow over comfort, you can optimize performance.
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Activation Energy: The chemical phenomenon that every reaction needs to start is equally true for everyday activities: Every new activity you start requires energy. That’s why multitasking is a recipe for exhaustion.
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Stop Wasting Your Mornings Like This.
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AI will not replace you. But against common saying, a person using AI won't replace you either. Because there's a 3rd level to this: AI, at the end of day, remains a tool. It's like a high-speed sports car. It can get you anywhere fast, but it needs a GPS, that is, clear
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Instead of Hustle, Do THIS. Hustle matters less than motive. For peak productivity, the real problem isn’t a lack of skill or hustle. It’s Misaligned Implicit Motives. Psychologist David McClelland reviewed 35 years of research on motivation and identified the three big
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How Minimalism Changed My Life. Minimalism reduces friction, the barrier to peak performance, by eliminating time-wasting tasks and stress-inducing hassles.
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The Top 1% Reset Dopamine Like This. Dopamine detoxing is the biggest brain myth out there. It's scientifically impossible to do. To achieve perfect focus, what you actually want to do is resensitize yourself to dopamine. Here's how.
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What is Flow?
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Finish this sentence: "I don't have enough..." ...if you said "time," you're probably suffering from one of the most common cognitive biases:
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The secret success in modern work: a state of consciousness where work feels effortless. Follow these 4 steps to activate an instant Flow State (every day):
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Beat Procrastination to a Pulp
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Can caffeine REALLY trigger flow?
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