Brad Stulberg

Those are all flow states.

To your point, you can also experience flow scrolling on Twitter.

You can experience flow gambling on sports or at a slot machine.

And you lose a sense of time.

You lose a sense of space.

Your perception changes.

You're completely enwrapped in what you're doing.

But then you exit shitty flow and you kind of feel like shit, hence the name shitty flow.

And I think that we experience much less flow in these days than we do shitty flow.

Shitty flow opportunities are all around us.

We have to work extra hard to get the good kind of flow.

What is that?

Pseudo excellence is the performance of excellence or individuals that are more concerned with performing great versus actually being great.

So pseudo excellence is the influencer that you see on the internet that wakes up at 4 a.m.

and has nine different breathing regimens.

And then they've got their nose taped or their mouth taped or maybe their ears taped.

Depends on the day of the week.

They cold plunge at 4.30 in the morning.

They take their 47-step supplement stacks.

They've got four pharmacists who aren't actually pharmacists on speed dial for their peptides.