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The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill

231. Steven Kotler — Harnessing Neuroscience for Peak Performance [Encore Edition]

The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill

Michael Mogill

Management, Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

5.0538 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Studies show that we only use 10 percent of our total brain capacity. But what would you do if you could use 100 percent of your brain? How would your life change? Steven Kotler — best-selling author, Pulitzer Prize nominee, and founder of the Flow Research Collective — has made it his life’s mission to discover everything he can about our greatest assets: our brains.  On this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Steven and Crisp Founder & CEO Michael Mogill explore: Why genetics and background don’t determine what you can accomplish How far understanding your brain and body will take you What it takes to achieve the impossible ---- Show Notes: [5:19] – Perfect upbringing does not determine peak performance [7:38] – Leveraging advantages and overcoming disadvantages [9:32] – The 4 pillars of your brain [12:05] – How to save your brain’s energy [19:50] – Keep going, even when you don’t feel like it [23:55] – Goals achieved are their own reward [26:34] – Protect your sphere of attention ---- Links & Resources Johns Hopkins University Squaw Valley/Palisades Tahoe Jackson Hole, WY Norepinephrine Harvard University Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work by Steven Kotler Flow Research Collective Mat Fraser James Lawrence Stewart Brand Super Bowl The Art of Impossible by Steven Kotler The Devil’s Dictionary by Steven Kotler ---- Listening to this episode but want to watch it? Check it out on Spotify.  Do you love this podcast and want to see more game changing content? Subscribe to our YouTube channel. ---- Past guests on The Game Changing Attorney Podcast include: David Goggins, John Morgan, Alex Hormozi, Randi McGinn, Kim Scott, Chris Voss, Kevin O’Leary, Laura Wasser, John Maxwell, Mark Lanier, Robert Greene, and many more. ---- If you enjoyed this episode, check out: #62 Mat Fraser – The Fittest Man On Earth #171 Adam Alter – Anatomy Of A Breakthrough #173 AMMA – Healthy Habits and High Performance

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0:00.0

What we call peak performance is really nothing more than getting our biology to work for us rather than against us.

0:09.7

We all share a lot of overlap biology. We can all use the system the way it was designed to work.

0:17.7

That's Stephen Kotler, best-selling author, award-winning journalist,

0:21.3

and the executive director of the Flow Research Collective.

0:24.2

In any situation, especially any situation in the form of your best,

0:28.0

motivation gets you into the game.

0:29.8

Learning allows you to continue to play.

0:32.5

Creativity is how you steal.

0:34.5

And Flow is how we turbo-bo boost the results beyond all sort of recognition

0:43.3

I'm Michael mogul founder and CEO of crisp the nation's number one law from growth company

0:49.8

I've built my business through practice not theory crisp started which is five $500 to my name and has grown to over eight figures in revenue

0:56.8

over the last few years, earning a spot on the Inc 500 list of the fastest growing private

1:01.4

companies in America.

1:02.6

Our approach has been to take everything we've learned about generating massive growth

1:06.1

within our own organization and help the country's most ambitious and committed

1:09.5

law firm owners do the same for theirs.

1:11.6

In each episode of this podcast, I sit down with innovative market leaders from the legal industry and beyond

1:16.4

to learn from those who thrive in the face of adversity, challenge the status quo, and define what it means to be a true game changer.

1:23.9

Today, we're revisiting one of our most popular episodes from the podcast where I sat down with Stephen Kotler to discuss what separates the highest performers from everyone else, how to get your biology to work for you instead of against you, and what it takes to achieve the impossible.

1:38.1

Take an ordinary person, put them on a path to use the tools of big performance to accomplish capital I impossible.

1:44.1

And as soon as you do one, right, anybody who's had a little bit of success knows this,

1:47.9

you're like, oh shit, I did that. What else could I do?

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