Mind Meld 237 | The Art of Impossible with Steven Kotler

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Michael Phillip

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🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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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. You can grab a copy of his new highly nutritious book, The Art of Impossible here.

In this mind meld, we riff about the art and science of setting better goals, creativity, the importance of flow, why meaning is of paramount importance, and more.

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0:00.0	Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults.
0:03.7	Now administering the third eye drops. Welcome back to the Mind Meld my dear Wonder Dippers. You are appreciated. You honor me. And speaking of honors, it is one to two weeks in a row I believe bring you what I consider to be
0:38.0	highly substantive mine melts I mean I am all about just being a conversational curiosity ranger.
0:47.6	We all need to go there for sure. But I also of course deeply appreciate more prescriptive direct actionable content too.
0:59.0	Actually it's pretty clear that a union of those two things, the daily actionable and the high
1:07.4	conceptual is what really yields a beautiful evolutionary dialectic. That's what we should all be after.
1:15.8	Because clearly we all know that nothing but endless epistemological, ontological, or any form of intellectual masturbation alone is not going
1:27.0	to get us where we want to go. I try to be honest about that, about my own struggles with being too much of a wonder dipper at times, but it also turns
1:37.6	out that too many goals or just shitty goals have a similarly crippling effect.
1:44.2	As Stephen Kotler points out in this mind melt,
1:47.3	poor goal setting is actually demotivating.
1:51.9	As I said that, the image of a thought bubble with just a black cloud of
1:56.9	scribbles in it came to mind. You know what I'm talking about? And I think that's pretty
2:02.3	much accurate because that's how ill-conceived goals actually make us feel.
2:08.3	We don't know what to do with them.
2:10.0	We don't see a path to directly acting upon them so it's just vexing and before
2:16.3	long we just fall right back into our old behavior patterns again. But again it
2:21.8	isn't just about goals. We got to figure out a way to
2:24.5	soak them in a brine of wonder and purpose too. We have to have what are known in
2:31.1	this field of study as intrinsic motivators. That is,
2:36.4	qualities like passion, purpose, and meaning must emerge from what we want to accomplish or they're not going to be salient.
2:47.2	You know, massively broad strokes here, but rest assured Stephen Kotler is about to hit you with a torrent of specifics and ideas that
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