Ep. 48 - The Secret to Disrupting Human Performance - with Steven Kotler
This week we’re kicking off the disruption series. We’re going to discover how incredible people disrupt their lives, their industries, and the world to create a powerful impact.
Today’s guest, Steven Kotler, is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Co-Founder / Director of Research for the Flow Genome Project.
He is one of the world’s leading experts on ultimate human performance and he has spent his entire career exploring how people do the impossible.
Rise of Superman is about how action and adventure sports athletes reinvent kinesthetic possibility.
Small Furry Prayer is about the cutting edge of empathy and altruism. Stealing Fire (Steven’s newest book) is about a $4 trillion underground movement to harness alternate states of consciousness to massively uplevel performance.
Through years of research, Steven has discovered that the secret to disrupting human performance is the same across the board: altered states of consciousness. This includes flow states, meditative states, psychedelic states, and more.
“One of the most well-established facts in the whole history of psychology is that altered states are incredibly good for us, and it’s not common knowledge.”
If you’re not familiar, altered states of consciousness can be defined as a specific bandwidth of non-ordinary states of consciousness where...
our normal sense of self vanishes our normal sense of time disappears we are freed from the drudgery of daily life we get a sense of effortless motivation and we can tap into a level of inspiration information that is normally unavailable.
In Stealing Fire, Steven uses the Greek term ecstasis to refer to this phenomenon and...
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