How to Unlock Peak Performance with Steven Kotler
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Steven Kotler’s journey towards understanding effective learning strategies took an unexpected turn during a period of profound illness. Struggling with his health challenges led him to delve into the concept of flow states, ultimately unraveling its transformative power. Through his personal ordeal and subsequent exploration, Steven not only gained insights into peak performance but also unearthed a universal truth about the human capacity for growth and resilience. His story serves as a compelling reminder of the untapped potential within each of us and the remarkable impact of effective learning strategies on our lives.
In this episode, you will be able to:
- Unlock your peak performance potential and experience the power of flow states
- Cultivate passion and grit to fuel your journey to success and fulfillment
- Discover effective learning strategies to enhance your understanding and retention of new subjects
- Harness the role of attention and curiosity to dive deeper into your areas of interest
- Understand motivation and master the art of goal-setting for personal and professional growth
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| 0:00.0 | The internal experience of learning for everyone, everyone in the world is, |
| 0:04.3 | I suck, I suck, I suck, I suck, oh look, I don't suck anymore. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time great thinkers have |
| 0:19.6 | recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, |
| 0:27.0 | ring true. |
| 0:28.0 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:32.0 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:37.0 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and |
| 0:41.7 | dampen our spirit. |
| 0:43.6 | But it's not just about thinking. |
| 0:45.4 | Our actions matter. |
| 0:46.9 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort |
| 0:49.6 | to make a life worth living. |
| 0:51.8 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right |
| 0:55.2 | direction, how they feed their good wolf. Get emotional with me Radi de de Lucea, in my new podcast, a really good cry. We're going to be talking with some of my best friends. |
| 1:18.0 | I didn't know we were going to go there on this. |
| 1:20.0 | People that I admire, when we say listen to your body, really tune in to what's going on. |
| 1:26.7 | Authors of books that have changed my life. |
| 1:28.8 | Now you're talking about sympathy, which is different than empathy. |
| 1:31.8 | Right. Never forget, it's okay to cry as long as you make it a really good one. |
| 1:36.0 | Listen to a really good cry with Radi Devlukya on the I Heart Radio app. |
| 1:41.0 | Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:44.6 | We hope you'll enjoy this episode from the archive. |
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