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Chasing Excellence

Steven Kotler on Accomplishing the Impossible

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

Health, Education, Mindset, Crossfit, Wellness, Self-improvement, Holistic Health, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Steven Kotler is the author of 13 books, including "The Rise of Superman." His newest book, "The Art of Impossible" is a deep dive into how to achieve peak performance, and is out now.

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percentage wise, this number isn't real, but it's been tested a lot and it holds up.

0:05.0

Sweet spot is about 4% greater than your skill level.

0:09.1

So when the challenge is about 4% greater than your skill level, that's the zone.

0:13.1

The problem with peak performers with hotline.

0:15.3

That's not a lot.

0:16.3

Yeah, that's the point.

0:17.3

Yeah, especially in our community.

0:19.3

Yeah, people just go to that blow up.

0:21.3

You're a community they go to, they blow up.

0:23.0

And so here's that this is a very sport specific thing.

0:27.4

I did the coolest thing that got done was at Angel Fire Bike Park, where we measured

0:32.2

every one of the jumps.

0:34.3

So we could at the start of the season, we said, okay, you're comfortable on a 12 foot

0:38.6

gap jump and you're comfortable on a 15 foot tabletop or your blah, blah, all that

0:42.6

stuff.

0:43.6

So we could start to measure increments and how much you push and blah, blah.

0:47.0

And we just, it was still wasn't the best.

0:49.8

We've never published it.

0:50.8

It's not a real study.

0:52.3

I still don't think it's real science.

0:53.8

I just think it's more information, but what we've found is the coolest thing in the

0:57.9

world.

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