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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SEALs go against most default approaches to leadership, training and execution to excel under adversity.
A few months back, Jamie had the chance to travel down to Sir Richard Branson’s Caribbean paradise, Necker Island, where he sat down with the Virgin magnate to discuss the role flow has played in helping shape his multi-billion dollar empire.
Everywhere we look in business, timetables once measured by calendars can now be clocked by egg timers. So how can we keep up? In a word—and according to an ever-increasing pile of evidence—“flow."
To really achieve anything, you have to be able to tolerate and enjoy risk. It has to become a challenge to look forward to. In all fields, to make exceptional discoveries you need risk—you’re just never going to have a breakthrough without it.
“How many surf bums who can’t keep a job washing dishes will be up at 5 AM putting on a gritty, sandy wetsuit to paddle out in cold, sharky water for just one shot at a barrel? That’s motivation. If you could bottle that, then what’s possible?”
I saw spiritual attainment and I thought, ‘That does not need to be religious. That can be scientific.’
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Steven Kotler has spent his career studying peak performers and analyzing how they are able to achieve such seemingly impossible things.
When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repetitive stories we tell about it, with fresh eyes.
By drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience, physiology, and psychology, The Habit of Ferocity Quest rewires you with a behavioral formula Steven calls 'ferocity'. Ferocity is a series of neurological and physiological habits that automate peak performance.
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Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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To really achieve anything, you have to be able to tolerate and enjoy risk. It has to become a challenge to look forward to. In all fields, to make exceptional discoveries you need risk—you’re just never going to have a breakthrough without it.
