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Food proof radio, a state of high performance.

I'm talking about Steven Kotler, who's one of the world's leading experts on peak performance. He's done neuroscience research at USC, UCLA, Stanford, Imperial College, all looking at extreme achievement.

He's very knowledgeable about this stuff. He's a crazy guy, a friend, an author of a brand new book that comes out exactly the same day that fasts this way it comes out.

I'm releasing this right in the middle of my own book launch because his book is worth your time to read and you guys know it's my job to share really cool stuff with you and thousands of people try to get on the show.

I'm really selective about who and what and when and I'm just going to stay straight up front. I got the advanced edition, pre publication and all that for the art of impossible and Steven's been nominated for two polls or prizes.

There's written 13 books and it's just a genius at writing. I love his writing and I love his deep research.

Steven, welcome to the show.

David, it's great to be with you. I was so stoked when I saw your new book because your basic premise is that it's in our biology that your biology is what drives extreme achievement, not just willpower.

How did you come to this conclusion?

The center of my work is flow and flow, if you look at sort of like what what is flow optimite? It's a huge suite of things, the reason motivation, productivity, grit, creativity and learning, innovation, cooperating.

So you said the things, this is a study flow, I've had to study the full macroscopic like all these different things and what's going on in each of them. When you look at the big picture and this is really developments that have happened in neuroscience and kind of performance psychology over the past 10 years, we're starting to see the big picture.

And it became very, very clear one, you know, the foundational premise of this book and of everything else, you and I very much agree on this is that big performance is nothing more or less, I guess, than getting your biology to work for you rather than against you.

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