Steven Kotler: How to Use Human Biology to Your Advantage

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Are you honest with yourself? Do you have realistic expectations of how your body can perform? What thoughts are you using to fuel your body and optimize its performance?

In this episode of the Align podcast, Steven Kotler and I discuss how understanding our own human biology is the most important thing we can do for ourselves in order to properly pursue and attain our goals. In fact, knowing how to make biology work for us and not against us is the secret of many successful people.

We also talk about the crucialness of honesty, and how we must accept that we can only work with what we have. Steven recommends how we should feed our pattern recognition system properly and on a daily basis to help us reach peak body and brain performance.

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. His nine bestsellers are praised all around the world and by industry leaders such as Elon Musk, Bill Clinton, and more.

What we discuss:

02:56: Discussing Steven's religious upbringing

08:42: How peak performance and honesty related to each other

10:00: Changing a child's direction through parenting

12:20: How praying is great training for peak performance

14:36: How evolution has been shaped by the force of innovation

16:31: What is the general thinking of flow?

18:13: Drivers of evolution: more food and better health

22:36: Why long-term planning and flow are dissociated

26:03: Kotler's Art of Impossible book

28:26: Motivation, learning, creativity and flow

To learn more about Steven:

Website: stevenkotler.com

Book mentioned: Art of Impossible

Instagram: @kotler.steven

Podcast: Flow Research Collective Radio

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Line Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind and your body and your movement.
0:12.0	And today's conversation was with my good buddy Stephen
0:16.1	Kotler. Mr. Kotler is absolutely one of the most prolific and renowned writers on planet Earth. He's on his, I believe it's his
0:26.2	13th book, The Art of Impossible, which just came out and I just finished reading it.
0:30.4	A really fantastic book. He's done 13 published a bunch of New York Times
0:35.2	bestsellers, all of our bestsellers, of some variety. He's got a couple other books
0:39.5	in the drawer that no one's ever going to see. He is a absolute machine when it comes to journalism, research,
0:46.7	and being just very thorough with a whole plethora of different topics and being able to
0:51.9	congeal those seemingly disparate ideas into meaningful
0:55.8	information for us to consume and that is what we get into in this conversation.
0:59.4	They are impossible.
1:00.4	How we can pursue seemingly impossible dreams and the action steps on how to make that happen.
1:04.9	That's not the subtitle.
1:05.9	But that is what I just produced as the pseudo-subtitle for this podcast.
1:10.1	A conversation was super fun.
1:11.3	I think you guys are going to enjoy it.
1:12.3	We're going to have another one with him coming up because we recorded this before I actually got to read the book and now got the book in my hands, my cold grasps here. It's kind of cold here in Los Angeles,
1:23.2	and we're gonna do another one.
1:24.7	So you guys are gonna get to tune into that one coming up.
1:27.3	I think you guys really enjoy this conversation.
1:28.8	Thank you so much for sharing it.
1:31.7	Thanks for doing you. Thanks for
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