How to quiet your mind and overcome addiction to your thoughts and Dan Harris: Think You're a Good Multitasker

Published on Jul 5, 2014

Alan Watts speaks on worrying and compulsive thinking.

Published on Nov 6, 2014

The best-selling author Steven Kotler discusses hypofrontality -- literally the slowing of the brain's prefrontal cortex -- and how it allows one to enter an optimal state of consciousness, known as flow. As Kotler explains, flow refers to those moments of total absorption when we get so focused on the task at hand that everything else disappears.
Kotler is the author of The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance (http://goo.gl/QLe0gt).

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Dan Harris: Think You're a Good Multitasker? Stop Lying.

Published on Nov 24, 2014

ABC News Correspondent Dan Harris explains why anyone who boasts about their ability to multitask is lying to themselves. "We literally neurologically cannot do more than one thing at a time," says Harris, who instead defines what we consider multitasking as "doing many things poorly." Harris is the author of 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story (http://goo.gl/wfSX4E).

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