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Peak Performance: Mental Training Techniques of the World’s Greatest Athletes

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By Charles A. Garfield, Hal Zina Bennett — 1985

A leading sports psychologist and a veteran sports writer examine the new mental training techniques of Russian and Eastern European athletes and detail exercises that allow everyone to benefit from those techniques.

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How to Get into the Flow State | Steven Kotler

Steven Kotler, author of Mindvalley’s ‘The Habit of Ferocity’ talks at A-Fest Jamaica about flow and how it can create peak performers.

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Steven Kotler
2019
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2021, the Year Black Athletes Gave Mental Health the Spotlight It Deserves

Tennis star Naomi Osaka and Olympic gymnast Simone Biles were part of the movement in 2021 by athletes to amplify the need to pay closer attention to mental health issues which have inspired millions of athletes on all levels of play.

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A. Sherrod Blakely
2021
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When You Can’t Change the World, Change Your Feelings

Adjusting your attitude is easier than you think.

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Arthur C. Brooks
2021
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The Metaverse could be a problem.

Facebook has changed to Meta, because they're building the Metaverse. This is going to change our lives. Here's how.

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2021
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The Art of Creative Inspiration | Victor Shamas | TEDxTucson

Victor Shamas, PhD, offers a fresh vision of the creative process as well as two practical tools for inducing the peak experience of creative inspiration.

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2019
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A Grieving Artist Goes Viral Finding Flow | Josie Lewis | TEDxMinneapolis

After years of devastating pregnancy losses that mirrored a lackluster art career, Josie Lewis gave up. She gave up trying to grow her family and gave up trying to be an artist.

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2020
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Why Is It Hard to Get Into a Writing Flow? —Matthew Kalil

In this Film Courage video interview, Screenwriter/Instructor and The Three Wells of Screenwriting Author Matthew Kalil on Why Is It Hard to Get Into a Writing Flow?

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2020
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Pre Writing Rituals For Entering Flow State ft. Steven Kotler

These are the pre-writing rituals NY Times Best Selling Author and Flow State expert Steven Kotler does to enter flow state when writing. He's written 12 books, nine of which were NY Times Best sellers, he knows what he's talking about.

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2021
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The Man Who Found the Flow

“What is happiness?” asked psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He found it in a state of mind beyond results and rewards and called it “the flow.”

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Andrew Cooper
2021
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It’s Great to Be ‘In the Zone’ — While Working, Exercising and Creating Art. Here’s How to Get There.

In the 1960s, psychologist Abraham Maslow became the first academic to write about what he called “peak experiences,” moments of elation that come from pushing ourselves in challenging tasks.

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Jessica Wapner
2019
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