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The Neuro Experience

Top Flow Researcher: How to Get 5 Days of Work Done in 1 Day | Steven Kotler

Sep 29, 2026 · 1h 35m

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About this episode

Steven Kotler has spent 30 years studying the state that makes people 500% more productive, and he has a problem with the book everyone on your feed is quoting. In this conversation he explains what flow actually is, how to train it, and why "The Body Keeps the Score" got trauma wrong. In this episode, Louisa sits down with the flow researcher and Flow Research Collective founder to go through the neurobiology underneath peak performance. He walks through the six characteristics psychologists use to define flow, the McKinsey study that found top leaders were 500% more productive in it, the DARPA experiment that cut skill acquisition time in half, and the data from 15,000 people who went…