STEVEN KOTLER | Making the Impossible Possible
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
I know that you have lofty and ambitious goals. I do too. I also know that, sometimes, the objectives we desire may seem out of reach, if not impossible. There is a myriad of reasons we may feel this way but regardless of the reasons, they hinder our realized potential.
Today, I am joined by a man who has not only studied making the impossible achievable, he's spent his life immersed and surrounded by the men who are doing it. His name is Steven Kotler and he is the author of The Art of Impossible. Today we talk about why achievement is an art, not a science, how to develop and trigger your "flow state," why everyone is wired for peak performance, the power of novelty, and how to create the impossible.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
- The peak performance mind
- Conducting your own experiment
- Crawl, walk, run
- The flow source code
- Reframing pleasure
- Flow hacking
- Multi-tool solutions
- Keeping promises
- The Bannister Effect
- Quality matters
- Cognitive load
- Building routine
- Double motivation
STEVEN KOTLER
My guest today is Steven Kotler. I have literally been working on getting him to join us on the podcast for years and today, that becomes a reality.
If you're not familiar with Steven, he is the author of his latest book, The Art of Impossible, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, and ten other books. He's an award-winning journalist and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He's been featured in the Wall Street Journal, TIME, and The Harvard Business Review.
He's an extremely fascinating individual and extremely intelligent. Gents, I think you're going to enjoy this one.
THE IRON COUNCIL
Gentlemen, I don't think it's any surprise to you that we've started to see a huge crackdown of sorts by the technology giants on anyone who doesn't toe the line with what is acceptable in the Doctrine of Popular Culture.
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| 0:00.0 | I know that you have lofty and ambitious goals, I do too. |
| 0:03.6 | I also know that sometimes the objectives that we desire may seem |
| 0:08.0 | at reach, if not impossible. And there's a myriad of reasons |
| 0:11.5 | that we may feel this way, but regardless of what those reasons are, |
| 0:14.6 | they hinder our realized potential. Today I'm joined by a man who is not only studied |
| 0:19.7 | making the impossible achievable, he's also spent his life immersed |
| 0:24.4 | and surrounded by the men who were doing it. His name is Stephen Kotler, and he is the author |
| 0:29.6 | of the art of impossible. Today we talk about why achievement is an art, |
| 0:34.4 | not a science, how to develop and trigger your quote-unquote flow state, |
| 0:39.2 | why everyone is wired for peak performance, the power of novelty, |
| 0:43.7 | and ultimately how to create the impossible for yourself. |
| 0:47.2 | You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, |
| 0:51.2 | and boldly charge your own path. When life knocks you down, |
| 0:54.3 | you get back up one more time, every time. You are not easily deterred |
| 0:58.8 | and profited, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life, this is who you are, |
| 1:05.0 | this is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done, |
| 1:09.7 | you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan |
| 1:14.3 | Mickler, and I am the host and the founder of this podcast and the Order of Man Movement |
| 1:18.6 | Welcome Here. The first thing I want to say is thank you. The |
| 1:22.8 | the download numbers that we've seen over the past several weeks and several |
| 1:27.3 | months now are exponentially increasing. You guys are tagging along on social media |
| 1:32.7 | and following us along there. Those numbers are increasing, so it's apparent to me |
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