#190 How to Age Like a Badass: Steven Kotler's Gnarly Guide to Breaking Your Personal Impossible
The Gabby Reece Show
Dear Media
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🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Steven Kotler, a renowned author and expert in the field of aging and performance. Steven shares his scientific approach to aging, exploring whether it's possible to teach an old dog new tricks. He talks about his personal experiment of learning new and dangerous skiing tricks at the age of 53 and how he combined a methodical approach with the seemingly impossible to achieve a surprising and inspiring outcome. You can find it all in his new book "Gnar Country."
Steven also discusses how the choices we make when we are younger can set us up for success in aging, and what we can do as we age to protect our brains and enjoy life to the fullest. With his extensive work with the Flow Research Collective, Steven is well-equipped to explain how to achieve flow, set up the optimal environment for it, and avoid anything that can kill it.
Stephen is challenging the narrative around aging and pushing himself and others to continue to learn new physical and creative endeavors. Tune in to hear more about Steven's latest book, Gnar Country, as well as his other best-selling works, including The Art of Impossible, The Rise of Superman, Abundance, Stealing Fire, The Future Is Faster Than You Think, and Bold. Plus, check out the Flow Research Collective website and follow Steven on Instagram for more insights and inspiration. I for one came away from this conversation more motivated than ever to not allow the narrative around aging to convince me to limit myself from trying new things, or believing that I can continue to thrive and learn new physical and creative endeavors forever. Enjoy
- On Being Introverted and Writing [00:04:03]
- Peak Performance Aging [00:07:50]
- Play-Oriented Approach [00:15:47]
- In the Flow [00:21:56]
- Getting Over Self-Consciousness [00:24:35]
- Incorporating Novelty [00:26:29]
- The Relationship Between Flow and Punk Rock [00:29:15]
- The Mindset [00:33:53]
- Wisdom [00:38:04]
- Flow Experience [00:49:32]
- Movement and Training [00:56:13]
- Challenging, Creative and Social Activity [01:01:33]
- The Peak Performance Aging Experiment Video [01:05:25]
- Team Geezer [01:09:07]
Steven's Books:
Gnar Country
The Art of Impossible
The Rise of Superman
Abundance
Website: www.flowresearchcollective.com
Instagram: @stevenkotler
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Gabby Rees Show where everything is an experiment. |
| 0:06.0 | The mindset of all, so the voice in your head that says you're too old for this shit there's a bunch of reasons it starts to develop it |
| 0:15.4 | It can start developing in your late 20s and from a peak from an agent healthy agent forget peak performance it deadly |
| 0:22.3 | People with a positive mindset towards aging healthy aging, forget peak performance, it's deadly. |
| 0:23.0 | People with a positive mindset towards aging |
| 0:25.0 | and there's like 50 years worth of data here. |
| 0:27.4 | A positive mindset towards aging, |
| 0:28.8 | I am thrilled with the second half of my life |
| 0:31.4 | and I think my best days are at a man, |
| 0:33.1 | you know, exciting possibilities, |
| 0:34.7 | I lie ahead. |
| 0:35.7 | That translates to an extra seven and a half years |
| 0:37.5 | of healthy, long time. |
| 0:40.8 | Gateways of adult development, basically. |
| 0:42.9 | If you want to thrive in a second half of your life, |
| 0:45.0 | there's certain things you have to do by certain ages. |
| 0:47.5 | I like to say that, like, people form as aging actually starts young, right? |
| 0:51.6 | You can make interventions in your late 80s and they're going to |
| 0:54.3 | really end of the matter and in quality of life, but if you really want to get it right, there's |
| 0:58.2 | psychological stuff that you want to start paying attention to as early as your 20s. And the first is you need to solve the crisis of identity by age 30. |
| 1:10.4 | Hi everyone. Welcome to the show. My guest today is author Stephen Kotler. You know Stephen's work in |
| 1:18.3 | Flow Research and getting into Flow State. He works with the Flow Research Collective. |
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