How to Shatter Limitations + Achieve Your Dreams with Steven Kotler
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Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
What if you could remove the limitations on what is possible for your one precious life? It turns out when you look into what is actually ‘impossible’ and tap into peak human performance, you're capable of much more than you know.
Steven Kotler is one of the world's leading experts on peak performance. He is an award-winning journalist and author of 9 national bestselling books. A two-time Pulitzer nominee, Steven's work has been translated into more than 40 languages and has appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, TIME, and the Harvard Business Review.
Steven pulls from decades of research and in his new book, The Art of Impossible. Not only do we dig into the meat of the book, we also learn how to optimize performance levels, starting from step 1.
We dive into:
- Turning the impossible into possible
- Tools for peak performance. While extrinsic and intrinsic motivations are what get you in the game, the formal learning and skills keep you there, creativity steers you, and flow pushes you beyond all reasonable expectations.
- Why you must be in a position to meet your basic needs before setting off for something new.
- Curiosity, passion, purpose, autonomy, and mastery as intrinsic motivators, and how to follow them in the right order for the best results.
- Neurobiological ways of understanding the various motivators.
- How to sustain creativity over a lifetime.
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| 0:00.0 | We are capable of so much more than we know. |
| 0:10.0 | We put limiters on our lives on what's possible over and over and over. |
| 0:18.0 | So the real mission is first to A, recognize that and then be decide what it is |
| 0:26.8 | we are going to do about it. And that is the message from my dear friend Stephen Kotler's |
| 0:34.2 | new book, The Art of Impossible. Now, you may be familiar with Stephen because |
| 0:40.3 | he's A, been on the show before, and B is a crazy smart person around creativity and how to |
| 0:45.8 | get in flow states. So if you're familiar as his work, this is going to be a treat. He's got |
| 0:50.3 | an amazing class on Creative Live for what it's worth. Again, Stephen, S-T-E-E-N, Kotler, K-O-T-L-E-R. |
| 0:57.1 | And today we're talking about decoding what have historically been thought of as secrets |
| 1:02.3 | around the world's most elite performers, athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs, and more. |
| 1:10.9 | And these are all people who have defined or changed the definition of what is possible for |
| 1:17.2 | their one precious life. |
| 1:18.2 | And this is available to you. |
| 1:19.3 | This is a mix of some things that you can do, actions you can take and ways to think, how to |
| 1:26.8 | explore your areas of curiosity, specifically |
| 1:31.9 | the how-toes, the what to do to uncork or unravel or peel the onion or however you want |
| 1:38.8 | to think about it, those things that are near to you. And I know this is, this is, this is a huge |
| 1:42.7 | blocker for so many of you listening and watching right now. And it's for that reason that you are going to love |
| 1:47.6 | today's show. Again, if you're not familiar with Stephen, he's one of the world's leading |
| 1:51.8 | experts on peak performance, um, an award winning journalist and author of like, think 12 books, |
| 1:58.0 | uh, including a bunch of national bestsellers. He's been nominated for two Pilotsers. |
| 2:02.5 | It's been translated into more than 40 languages. |
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