Best of 2023: Steven Kotler | Aging and Peak Performance: How Flow Can Help You Thrive at Any Age
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Today, we're thrilled to have Steven Kotler, a best-selling author and peak performance expert. Steven is the author of the best-selling book 'The Art of Impossible', a guide that explores the science of achieving the impossible.
In this episode, Steven delves into the neurobiology of peak performance, emphasizing the role of curiosity, passion, and purpose in achieving success. He demystifies the concept of 'impossible,' explaining that it often boils down to a skillset that hasn't been mastered yet.
Steven's insights are not just for peak performers but for anyone who seeks to push their boundaries and discover their hidden potential. He discusses the four stages of the flow cycle and how understanding these stages can help individuals achieve more flow in their lives. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in peak performance, personal development, and the power of the human mind.
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| 0:00.0 | access to passion, purpose, and flow really sort of matters, right? |
| 0:04.4 | As part of what gets you into this door in a sense, |
| 0:09.5 | and then sustaining it over time really matters and I was as an expert skier my only entrance into flow is big mountain riding more challenge more risk more more danger. |
| 0:23.0 | With park skiing, even though it seems ridiculous, |
| 0:26.3 | what I was trying to do was I was trying to learn |
| 0:28.4 | how to creatively interpret terrain features. |
| 0:31.5 | Some of those train features were in the train park, but really I wanted to be able to use the entire mountain like a slope style course, if that makes sense to you. And the reason is this, risk is a flow trigger, so it as novelty and that's what I was getting as an expert skier. |
| 0:46.4 | What I wanted was creativity. So creativity when you link ideas together in a new way, you get pattern recognition, that works as a flow trigger. |
| 0:55.6 | And it's a much safer flow trigger than risk. |
| 0:59.6 | And by learning how to park ski, I would learn a million different ways to |
| 1:03.8 | creatively interpret the mountain and get into flow. So I was learning to move my |
| 1:08.5 | body in new ways and use the terrain in new ways at all levels of terrain. |
| 1:14.0 | And what I was doing was actually giving myself |
| 1:17.0 | a million more entrances into flow over time |
| 1:21.2 | than I actually had before as a skier. |
| 1:28.1 | I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable |
| 1:30.4 | Creative Podcast, where you get a window |
| 1:32.3 | into the stories and insights of the |
| 1:33.8 | most innovative and creative minds who started movements built thriving |
| 1:37.4 | businesses written best-selling books and created insanely interesting art. |
| 1:41.2 | For more check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable |
| 1:44.6 | creative.com. Stephen, welcome back to the unmistakable creative. |
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