Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

Steven Kotler on Peak Performance for the Ultimate Life Mastery Summit Sept 7-12 #motivation

1 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Steven Kotler explains how curiosity and passion trigger flow states. A 2022 Chinese study found that students writing essays on topics they cared about entered flow more often and produced substantially better writing than when assigned random topics.

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China (2022)

2022

About nine years

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Right. When we're curious about something, we pay more attention to it. When we're passionate about something, we pay a lot more attention to it. Right. Simple example. There was a study done in China in 2022 where they were looking at flow in writing English as a second language. So these are students who had studied English for about nine years on average, and they were given an essay topic. And when the essay topic was aligned with, like, things they were actually passionate about and that they were curious about, they got into flow way more often and produced far better writing than without. So that's just an example of.