Peak Performance

Have you ever been completely and utterly immersed in a task? Oblivious to the outside world, focused only on your own progress and what’s going on right here and now? Maybe you’ve been doing something you love, like playing music or a certain sport, before realising that time has totally passed you by?

Typically we feel this way when we fall in love. We completely loose track of time, hunger, sleep and other bodily functions. We can be immersed in the activity for hours together. This is called the state of flow. Human beings are very much capable of being in this state. This is the only way we achieve peak performance. Today as knowledge workers we crave for this focused state also called as deep work. So here is a formula to harness the state of flow. The formula is simple. It goes like this.

Flow = Fear + Fun + Focus

When you are in flow the below is what happens in your neurobiology. Fascinating isn’t it?

Formula Credit: Friederike Fabritius (Neuroscientist & Author)

🥂to Flow!