Steven Kotler is an American author and expert in the field of peak performance and the evolution of human potential through consciousness.
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After spending two years in bed with Lyme disease, Steven Kotler had lost everything: his health, his job, his girl, and, he was beginning to suspect, his mind. Kotler, not a religious man, suddenly found himself drawn to the sport of surfing as if it were the cornerstone of a new faith.
This is what the self-help books don’t tell you. Fully alive and deeply committed is a risky business. Once you strip away the platitudes, a life of passion and purpose will always cost, as T. S. Eliot reminds us, ‘Not less than everything.’
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My new book coming out on January 19th, 2021 is about what it takes to achieve the impossible.
For a long time, research into flow states was subjective—researchers had to rely on people’s self-reported experiences to understand altered states of mind.
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Risky pursuits like BASE jumping offer a buzz better than any drug. New technologies provide the same rush without the danger.
Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.
Bestselling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler decodes the secrets of those elite performers—athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs and more—who have changed our definition of the possible, teaching us how we too can stretch far beyond our capabilities, making impossible dreams much more...
According to ‘Stealing Fire’ authors Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal, there’s a new $4 trillion high performance revolution fueling the Navy’s SEAL Team Six and high profile executives in Silicon Valley and Wall Street to the top of their game but no one on the mainstream level knows about it...
I spoke to both Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal, coauthors of the national bestseller Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work, about why they focused on performance enhancement for their book, their four accelerating...
The ability to learn faster than your competitors is the only sustainable competitive advantage.
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This is what the self-help books don’t tell you. Fully alive and deeply committed is a risky business. Once you strip away the platitudes, a life of passion and purpose will always cost, as T. S. Eliot reminds us, ‘Not less than everything.’
