Our Best Selves | Jamie Wheal | SU Global Summit

In a world of exponential change, one of our greatest challenges is to remain centered on what makes us human. Jamie Wheal, co-author of Stealing Fire, shows how we can achieve a state of Flow, helping us to perform at our best, live our happiest and most fulfilled lives - and to be our best selves.

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[Matrinique]

My takeaway: Exercise regularly, eat well, get enough sleep, and don't get too embroiled in social media and news. Talk to people, work hard, love your neighbors and communities, listen, respect, take care of your body and rest when you need to.

[lucidfuture]

Everyone needs to listen and understand this very important message

[amandajtycer]

I don't know who this guy is but... I already like him after a few minutes of listening to him talk.

[de]

This guy is great. I like all the videos I've seen of him. Also he had a slip in this video and kept going like it was nothing then he laughed when he said it goes up which tied it way to nicely with his slip. He's cool.

[selliahlawrencebanchanatha]

Sir your grate love love you almost crying

[liamkurmos]

That he recovers smoothly from his slip at 24:30 shows he knows how to maintain his flow.

[Wmom]

Awesome!! Take your skills and use them to help out!! 💖 💖

[williamsmith]

If I turn my phone off, how can I watch your video???

[barbcarbon]

Man, if you thought shit was going sideways when you gave this talk I can’t imagine how you feel now…

[marcusknight]

24:27 If Freud still existed and was listening to this statement, I would wonder if he think deep inside of Jamie Wheal mind, he actually prefer being with another man. Hmm... we can only speculate.

[JJWo]

Terence 2.0 - Proud am I says Terence 1

[pauljohnson]

“That’s just pharmacological priming” for working is equivalent to… drum roll… synthetic drug addiction of the masses.

[Guy-nshk]

James Bond villain patronizes the audience, hypnotizes them into agreeing with his politics, whilst picking their pockets. Standing on the shoulders of geniuses like M. Csikszentmihalyi and monetizing their work in the style of an Apple product launch. He implies that his talk is off the cuff having 'just returned from the mountains, ' when this performance has been rehearsed again and again and again.

I have been interested in flow for a long time and don't like seeing it given the plastic lunch box treatment.

[minimaxx]

Cutting toenails now and then. Looking down.. Damn! those have grown a little too much

[fuzzy]

This so called new map seems like a childish conceit. Take a pill and solve the riddle of consciousness. There's no feee lunch. Psychedelics are good for an initial opening but not a lifestyle. The work needs to be done. From the perspective of authentic yogic science this is primitive stuff.