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Mar 2023
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Should You Always be in the Flow?

DR. PATRICK J. COHN
About this episode

In this episode, Dr. Cohn answers a question from a reader playing in the flow all the time. Here's the question of the week:

WILLIAM: "I think to play well, I have to be in flow. But I can't seem to enter flow at will. How do I always enter into the flow for every time I compete?"

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