Dave Evans

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2,777 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 6 Jul

Dave Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Hidden Brain · Radical Acceptance · 4 May 2026 podcast

it will suck all of my attention, and in so doing, prevent me from being distracted by other things, and that will allow me to fully engage the present moment.

So what I've really done is I've outsourced my attention to the challenge of my task, and that can work.

But what we're saying is, look,

You're an autonomous being.

You've got some free will here.

You've got some power.

You can actually make some choices to expand the flow channel and make it what we call the simple flow channel.

So let's say I'm doing a task that frankly doesn't require everything I can do.

I'm just chopping onions to prepare for soup.

I'm making soup for dinner.

I'm chopping an onion.

Not that hard.

I'm a little bored doing it.

But hey...

I can still be fully present to that task.

So what I can do is I can choose not to let boredom come in.

I can really enjoy the sharpness of the knife.

I can feel the crispness of the onion pushing back.

I can allow myself by choice to fully engage that experience for five or 10 minutes.

And I can drop into flow by choice.

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