Ep. 10 - Steven Kotler: How to Be a Super-Human
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2014
⏱️ 73 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is James Altecher, here at the James Altecher Show, and the title of today's interview |
| 0:17.3 | is How to Be a Superhuman. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm going to be interviewing Stephen Kotler, who wrote the book The Rise of the Superhuman, |
| 0:25.1 | and we'll be discussing what he means by a Superman. |
| 0:30.1 | But first, I want to introduce my co-host, Aaron Bravo, Aaron, how are you doing today? |
| 0:34.8 | I'm doing great, James. |
| 0:36.1 | It's good to be here. |
| 0:37.9 | You already recorded the interview. |
| 0:39.4 | I listened to it about an hour ago. |
| 0:42.1 | I found it pretty fascinating. |
| 0:43.6 | It's actually one of my favorite interviews that you've done so far, but it's on a subject |
| 0:47.0 | matter that I'm highly interested in. |
| 0:49.7 | And I'm sure a lot of our listeners out there will really enjoy it as well. |
| 0:53.6 | Yeah, I mean, it's basically, I mean, the book focuses a lot on the gap between what the |
| 1:01.4 | brain can train for and what the body and brain will do when it goes beyond what it can |
| 1:08.0 | train for. |
| 1:09.0 | So for instance, he focuses a lot on these extreme athletes. |
| 1:13.0 | Like let's say you're climbing up a mountain or jumping off a mountain with no ropes or anything |
| 1:18.0 | like that, or you're surfing in extreme conditions or you're skateboarding and trying to |
| 1:23.2 | do something that's never been done before. |
| 1:25.3 | These are things that the average person can train only so much. |
| 1:29.9 | But when you're actually in the event, things can happen, which have never been, which |
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