Steven Kotler

Aug 2, 2024 | bigthink.com | Steven Kotler |Wendy A. Suzuki |Robert Waldinger

STEPHEN KOTLER: One of the really incredible things about being human is we're all built for peak performance. Flow is often described as a state of kind of effortless effort. We feel like we're propelled through the activity. Everything else just seems to disappear. You hear the word "anxiety," you think, "Oh God, this thing I wanna kick out the door. I want to get rid of it." I wanted to flip the script. Anxiety is a normal human emotion. We all have it.

Oct 24, 2023 | fitbizweekly.ca | Steven Kotler

We are all capable of so much more than we know. It doesn’t matter what the “more” you want is—maybe you want more productivity; maybe you want a more meaningful life; maybe you want to be the first person to live on Mars—the formula is always the same. Why? We’re all human, we all share the same biology, and the secret to peak performance is getting our biology to work for us rather than against us. History reveals moments in time when the impossible became possible.

Sep 15, 2023 | web.archive.org | Steven Kotler

In the opening pages of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe describes “a thin blond guy with a blazing disk on his forehead,” wearing “just an Indian bead necklace on bare skin and a white butcher’s coat with medals from the King of Sweden on it.” This guy is stewart brand, a Stanford-educated biologist and an ex–Army paratrooper turned Ken Kesey cohort and fellow merry prankster who, in 1966, at age 28, had launched a nationwide campaign to convince nasa to release for the first time...

Aug 11, 2023 | time.com | Steven Kotler

IdeasAugust 11, 2023 7:00 AM EDTKotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. If you’re alive today, there’s a good chance you’ve come to believe in a series of myths about the second half of your life.

Mar 2, 2023 | bigthink.com | Steven Kotler

From the book GNAR COUNTRY by Steven Kotler. Copyright © 2023 by Steven Kotler. Published by Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted by permission. Recent discoveries in embodied cognition, flow science, and network neuroscience have revolutionized how we think about human learning. On paper, these discoveries “should” allow older athletes to progress in supposedly “impossible” activities like park skiing.