Steven Kotler: Master Your Flow with The Art of the Impossible (#165)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

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🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Best-selling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler decodes the secrets of those elite performers - athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs, and more - who have changed our definition of the possible, teaching us how we too can stretch far beyond our capabilities, making impossible dreams much more attainable for all of us. What does it take to accomplish the impossible? What does it take to shatter our limitations, exceed our expectations, and turn our biggest dreams into our most recent achievements? We are capable of so much more than we know - that’s the message at the core of The Art of Impossible. Building upon cutting-edge neuroscience and more than 20 years of research, best-selling author, peak performance expert and executive director of the Flow Research Collective, Steven Kotler lays out a blueprint for extreme performance improvement. If you want to aim high, here is the playbook to make it happen! Inspirational and aspirational, pragmatic and accessible, The Art of Impossible is a life-changing experience disguised as a how-to manual for peak performance that anyone can use to shoot for the stars...spacesuit not included. Get the book! https://youtu.be/s0G6EjroLWQ Support our Sponsors! LinkedIn Jobs! Use this link to post your first job ad for FREE LinkedIn.com/impossiblebiOptimizers for better sleep https://magbreakthrough.com/impossible Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:42 Why is humanity resistant to achieving the impossible? 00:04:17 How do elite athletes do the impossible, the first time? 00:08:16 Tell us about the subtitle of your latest book: A Peak Performance Primer 00:14:03 How can I assess how well I am doing on a task against a standard? What is the role of feedback in peak performance? 00:20:02 What do you mean by "Not going big is bad for you."? The role of motivation. 00:21:04 What are the 5 intrinsic motivators? 00:26:41 How do you achieve flow and "big" in a finite world? Flow practices. 00:32:33 What advice would you give your younger self? Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating And please join my mailing list to get resources and enter giveaways to win a FREE copy of my book (and more) http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 📝 🎥 🎥 Watch my most popular videos🎥 🎥 Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Weinstein and Wolfram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4?sub_confirmation=1 Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Michael Saylor The Physics of Bitcoin https://youtu.be/CaN_CDKqXOg?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuqyAvX7Wo?sub_confirmation=1 Jill Tarter https://youtu.be/O9K9OBd3vHk?sub_confirmation=1 Sara Seager Venus LIfe: https://youtu.be/QPsEDoOTU6k?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1 Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM 🏄‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔥 Find me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 📖 Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA 🔔 Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 📧Join my mailing list: http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 👪Join my Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/losingthenobelprize 🎙️Please subscribe, rate, and review the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-impossible/id1169885840?mt=2 🎙️Listen on all other platforms: https://wavve.link/into A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:07.0	Get out as quickly as possible.
0:09.0	I appreciate you, Stephen Kotler, today's guest on the Into the Impossible
0:15.1	podcast appropriate because his awesome new book is the art of the
0:19.1	impossible and we're gonna talk about so many things in an impossibly short amount of time.
0:24.0	Stephen, you're a Cleveland boy, just like me, at least I went to college, a Case Western,
0:28.4	where it was discovered that the universe does not need an ether, a supporting medium to propagate
0:36.9	light waves and it was thought to be impossible for millennia for life to travel
0:41.4	through a vacuum without some kind of underlying medium.
0:45.0	What do you make of the fact that there are these paradigms that need to be overthrown in order for our perceptions of reality to be shaken towards a common good that we have to
0:56.0	break through and really do the impossible and there's so much resistance to it even though
1:01.0	on the other side lies truth, lies true reality. Why are humans so resistant to achieving the art of the impossible?
1:09.0	So I don't know if I have the answer exactly to that question.
1:16.6	That's a hard question.
1:18.4	I want to back off on that.
1:19.8	Here's what I can tell you, you know, 30 years of studying those, the right,
1:26.4	this has been my beat as a journalist, as an author,
1:29.1	as a peak performance research, for those moments in time
1:31.7	on the impossible became possible.
1:33.3	And after 30 years of doing this work,
1:35.2	two things seem overwhelmingly clear.
1:37.8	One is that we're all capable of so much more than we know.
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