About this episode

Rían Doris discusses how to reprogram your brain to crave hard work using proven protocols.

Download your FREE PDF guide here: https://www.flowstate.com/flow/boring-breaks Inside: the 3 simple, proven protocols to reprogram your brain to crave hard work — all summarized neatly from this video. ABOUT ME Rían Doris is the Co-Founder & CEO of FlowState, the world’s leading peak performance research and training institute focused on decoding the neuroscience of flow states and helping leaders and their teams unlock flow states consistently. Clients include Accenture, Audi, Facebook, Bain & the US Air Force. Along with being listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 Rian's thought leadership has been featured in Fast Company, PBS and Big Think and he hosted Flow Research Collective Radio, an iTunes top 10 science podcast. Rían holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) from Trinity College Dublin, an MSC in Neuroscience at King's College, London and an MBA. Rian is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Birmingham. ‍ Prior to founding FlowState, Rían co-founded Flow Research Collective with Steven Kotler, worked with NYT Bestselling Author Keith Ferazzi, and 12X NYT Bestselling Author Dr. Dan Siegel, and was distinguished fellow of the American…

People in this episode

Host: Rían Doris

Topics covered

• dopamine
• hard work
• neuroscience
• peak performance
• brain reprogramming

Keywords

• dopamine
• hard work
• neuroscience
• performance
• brain reprogramming
• FlowState

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FlowState, Accenture, Audi, Facebook, Bain, US Air Force

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