The Formula For Peak Performance w/ Steven Kotler
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Steven is an entrepreneur and writer whose work has appeared in just about every publication you can think of-- New York Times, Forbes, Wired, TIME, you name it and was nominated for a Pultizer for his book “A Small Furry Prayer. I wanted to have Steven on here because he has a very unique focus in his latest book “Stealing Fire”: understanding peak human performance -- not in an abstract sense, but the specific mechanisms that make people like world-class athletes, Navy SEALs, and entrepreneurs able to do the incredible things they do and more importantly, how that formula can be reverse-engineered and applied to YOUR life.
Today on the podcast,
* We get deep into one of Steven’s signature themes which is “flow:” the optimal state of consciousness where we feel + perform our best
* Why mindfulness is a super important part of all this-- Steven says that many of us live in a constant state of mild fight or flight that overtaxes our nervous system
* The implications of all this specifically for creatives - what Steven learned from studying ravers, CEOs, SEALs is actually directly applicable to us
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, how's it going? I'm Chase Jarvis. I want to welcome you to another episode of the Chase Jarvis live show here on Creative Live. This show is where I sit down with the world's top creators, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and I unpack their brains with the goal of helping you live your dreams and career in hobby |
| 0:22.5 | and in life. |
| 0:24.1 | My guest today is a bestselling author. |
| 0:26.3 | He's a researcher. |
| 0:27.4 | He's a writer. |
| 0:28.7 | He taps into one of my favorite topics, which is maximizing human performance. |
| 0:33.9 | My guest is Stephen Kotler. |
| 0:36.6 | Mr. Stephen Kotler is an entrepreneur, a writer. I really |
| 0:40.1 | know his work as a writer, but there is some entrepreneurial stuff as there is for all of us |
| 0:44.1 | creators in his world. He writes about human performance, among other things. It was one of the things |
| 0:51.3 | that I was fascinated by early in my creative career, |
| 0:54.9 | how to tap into that. It sort of segued out of my career in sports. And Stephen was one of the |
| 1:00.0 | first people that I had seen who was sewing those two things together. His work has appeared |
| 1:04.2 | in every place you can possibly think of New York Times, Ford Wired, Time Magazine, you name it. He's |
| 1:09.4 | even been nominated for a Pulitzer for his book a small |
| 1:12.1 | furry prayer i wanted to have stephen on the show because of his unique focus and especially |
| 1:17.7 | his most recent book called stealing fire it's around understanding peak human performance |
| 1:23.8 | and and the difference between this book and the other books that you've read is this, |
| 1:28.2 | it takes all the abstraction, like, what would it be like if? And this book, it underscores the |
| 1:34.1 | actual potential that you, right now, wherever you are, have to tap into the mechanisms that |
| 1:40.4 | make people like Navy SEALs, the top entrepreneurs, the world's best athletes, |
| 1:45.2 | you can have access to the same part of your brain that they have been coached into tapping |
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