The 10% brain myth—that we use only 10% of our brains and flow involves the full brain on overdrive—is exactly backwards; in flow we use less of the brain, not more, through a process called transient hypofrontality.
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Steven KotlerEvidence Quote
“In flow, we're not using more of the brain, we're actually using less of the brain. The technical term for this is transient hypofrontality”
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