Steven Kotler: The Myths Around Aging And The Misconceptions About Trauma | EP 438

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Align podcast, Steven and I talk about what it means to get older and the myths around ageing. We also discuss how we can develop wisdom, where it exists in the brain and how we can access it as we get older. Steven tells us about how you can age more healthily by staying creative, spending time in nature, nurturing social connections and more. We also touch upon the misconceptions about trauma and its benefits. If you want to find out how to thrive in your older years, give this a listen!

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.

Steven is the author of eleven bestsellers (out of fourteen books), including The Art of Impossible, The Future is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, Bold and Abundance. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, translated into over 50 languages, and has appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, TIME, and the Harvard Business Review.

Alongside his wife, author Joy Nicholson, he is also the co-founder of The Buddy Sue Hospice Home for Old Dogs, a canine elder care facility, and Rancho de Chihuahua, a dog rescue and sanctuary.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Line Podcast, my name is Aaron Alexander and this is a place that we bring together
0:06.2	the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind, body, and
0:10.5	movement today's conversations with my friend Stephen Kotler.
0:14.6	In this conversation we break down some of the myths around aging, the idea that we
0:19.7	reach a certain age and suddenly our memory starts to deteriorate and our energy levels reduce and our
0:24.8	libido starts to drop and everything just falls apart. I think that is a product of normal which statistically if you look at normal I personally have interest in
0:36.9	being involved with that category and most of the lifestyle choices to transition a person above the bar of normal in Western
0:46.1	culture. It's not much, it's not complicated, it's pretty easy and this
0:51.0	conversation opens up some of those options.
0:54.0	It also teaches you how to develop wisdom, where wisdom exists in the brain and a lot more.
1:00.0	Stephen Kotler is a good friend.
1:02.0	He is one of the most prolific authors on the planet.
1:06.0	He's multiple times. New York's Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times,
1:09.4	best-selling author.
1:10.2	Awardwinning a journalist and also the founder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective.
1:16.4	He is a badass. He has a book out now called Nark Country, which specifically debunks a lot of these myths around aging and that's what we're going to do in this conversation.
1:27.0	I hope you all dig it. Let's go.
1:30.0	Stephen Kotler, thank you for making time for this again.
1:34.3	I've been working for the conversation.
1:36.0	Good to see you.
1:37.7	I want to start with the question of something that I think about semi-regularly or at least a challenge when there's
1:45.2	conversations around it.
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