The Secret to Super Human Performance No One tells you.

For most of this 20th century, the idea of peak performance was what we now call the 10% brain month. It’s the idea that we’re only using a small portion of our brain; say 10% at any one time.

Peak performance: it must be the full brain on overdrive right. And it turns out we had it absolutely backward. The flow requires all this extra energy for focus where does it come from? The brain shuts off non-critical structures. You don’t mean this right now I’m going to turn it off and give you that extra energy for attention.

That state we want: FLOW

So in flow, we’re not actually using more of the brain. We’re using less of the ring. What does it really take to reach your full potential? To use your limited resources of time energy and attention to do what you thought was previously impossible.

Now while this topic is typically relegated to science fiction dramas, the truth is actually much simpler than you might imagine. According to author and journalist Steven Kotler, it begins with one word: flow. It’s technically defined as an optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best. When we perform our best and more colloquially. It’s any of those moments of raft…