Time is calculated all over the prefrontal cortex; as parts of the prefrontal cortex wink out in flow, it can no longer separate past from present from future, plunging us into a state researchers call 'the deep now', which has huge impact on performance because most fears and anxieties are about things that happened in the past or might happen in the future, not the present moment.
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Steven KotlerEvidence Quote
“Time is calculated all over the prefrontal cortex...it can no longer separate past from present, from future. We're plunged into a state researchers talk about as the deep now...most fears...are not in the right here right now...When we end up in the deep now, anxiety disappears”
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