How To Condition Your Mind And Body To Do The Impossible And Become Super Human – Steven Kottler (Ep. 388)

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Justin Stenstrom

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4.2 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Steven Kotler is a New York Times-bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance. Steven joins our show today and talks about how to condition your mind and body to perform in a peak state of function whenever you want. He describes being in flow and zoning into your optimal ability to create the impossible whenever you want. If you’re wondering how to tap into an elite state of performance whenever you want, check this episode out now!

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In our episode we go over:

• The art of the impossible

• Why action sports athletes constantly can get into flow

• The 27 triggers for getting into flow state

• The fact that positive mindset can add 8 years to your lifespan

• The neuroscience behind flow state

• The optimal feeling to have for happiness and fulfillment

• The fact that retirement is a terrible idea

• Whether or not old dogs can learn new tricks

• The best way to age gracefully and keep your brain as sharp as ever

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Book: https://www.gnarcountry.com/

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0:00.0	All right, guys. We're live. It's Justin Stenstrom from EliteLife Podcast.com. And today's guest is
0:06.1	Stephen Kotler, the New York Times bestselling author of multiple books, including The Art of Impossible,
0:12.7	which is the book that I read the last book, but he actually just come out with a new one.
0:16.3	What's the new one called, Stephen?
0:17.8	NAR country, growing old, stang rad.
0:20.4	Awesome. Yeah, it's an incredible
0:22.1	take on things. I haven't dived. I haven't dove into it yet, but it's something I'm going to
0:26.9	tackle in the probably upcoming weeks and I get a little bit more time. But here we are today,
0:31.5	so I get to pick your brain on that subject as well and get a sneak peek into it. Cool. Let's do it. Yeah, awesome, man.
0:42.3	I've going through your background a little bit, and it seems like you've been a guy who's been doing this for a while with peak performance, peak functioning, superhuman type of
0:49.8	ideas about achieving, like, optimal function as a human being.
0:54.7	How did you get into that field and why has it been a focus of a lot of your books?
1:00.2	So I started out as a journalist.
1:05.2	It was my early career.
1:06.9	And journalism is this really cool career where, you know,
1:10.5	you essentially, if you can write and I could write, you can get paid to be curious.
1:16.7	And I was, I've always sort of been curious about about people in general and even performance in general.
1:23.7	So that was a long time like that.
1:25.2	I think that was born that way, just a little curious.
1:27.2	What was happening in the early 1990s when I came in was neuroscience was getting
1:32.3	involved. And I didn't love psychology. I didn't, like the answers were too squishy. They were
1:37.4	too subjective. They weren't reliable. They weren't repeatable. And when you moved into into
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