Top Movement Expert: Flow State Can Turn You Into a Robot | Ido Portal

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Easy dopamine is not a shortcut to a better life, Ido Portal argues; it is the reward that traps you inside what you already know. After decades spent deliberately returning to beginner status, Ido explains why he abandons skills once they become easy, why narrow specialization can cost a person more than it gives them, and why practice should not be reduced to a goal, a product, or a performance metric. In his view, practice is the basic process of becoming: the same constant adaptation visible in cells, connective tissue, and evolution itself. That philosophy becomes concrete in his work with elite athletes. Ido describes training Christian McCaffrey through difficult texts, mathematics,…