The Art of Impossible, Steven Kotler
The Art of Impossible, Steven Kotler
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The Art of Impossible
A Peak Performance Primer

Author: Steven Kotler

Narrator: Fred Sanders

Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/19/2021


Synopsis

Bestselling 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 over twenty years of research, bestselling 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 . . . space-suit, not included. 

About Steven Kotler

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. He is the author of eleven bestsellers (out of fourteen books total), including The Art of Impossible, The Future Is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, and The Rise of Superman. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, has been translated into more than fifty languages, and has appeared in more than one hundred publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, the Atlantic, Time, and the Harvard Business Review. Steven is also the cohost of Flow Research Collective Radio, a top ten iTunes science podcast. Whenever possible, he can be found hurling himself down mountains at high speeds.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hill on February 04, 2021

Author had me in this: Why to read books over blogs or news articles? If you read a blog: it takes 3 minutes & gets you 3 days of author’s time; Articles in magazines: 20 minutes of reading gets you 4 months; Books: 5 hours gets you 15 years of author’s life! Books are the radicalized condensation of l......more

Goodreads review by Bernie on January 18, 2021

Steven Kotler’s new book, “The Art of Impossible,” shares territory with two of his previous books [“The Rise of Superman” and “Stealing Fire” (the latter co-authored with Jamie Wheal,)] but it also takes a step back to reveal a broader landscape than those previous books. Whereas the earlier books......more

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on March 20, 2021

The drivers: - curiousity, - passion, - purpose, - autonomy - mastery. A great passion recipe: Q: Start by writing down twenty-five things you’re curious about. ... Hunt for intersections ... By stacking motivations, that is, layering curiosity atop curiosity atop curiosity, we’re increasing drive but not ef......more

Goodreads review by Franca on June 02, 2022

While reading this book, I found much of it familiar - perhaps because I had read several of the books he mentioned but also because many books I’ve read, from popular best sellers to pedagogical literature to spiritual yoga texts contain similar messages. (One notion that was new to me was the ROI......more

Goodreads review by Cav on November 02, 2023

"Ever since you were a little kid, you always have a dream about what you can accomplish. As soon as you get close to that dream, there’s another. There’s always a desire to keep learning, to keep evolving. Here’s the line. Let’s tickle it a bit. And then you figure out that’s not actually the line.......more