Top 40 Steven Kotler Quotes
#1. Hallucinogens then do the same job as religion - they provide proof of unity, which is still the only known cure for fear of death.
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#2. Sooner or later, there's always a Jaws: a mental hurdle we can't clear, a decision too dangerous to attack head on. In those situations, sideways is forward.
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#3. How many people have stopped playing guitar, writing poetry, or painting watercolors - activities packed with flow triggers - because these are also activities that do not squarely fit into culturally acceptable responsibility categories like "career" or "children"?
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#4. Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.
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#5. Flow is an alternative path toward mastery, but, like any path, not without its pitfalls. There's a serious dark side to flow,
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#6. This means flow packs a double punch: it doesn't just increase our decision-making abilities - it increases our creative decision-making abilities. Dramatically.
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#7. Risk heightens focus and flow follows focus. This means that the fight-or-flight response primes the body - chemically and psychologically - for the flow state. Athletes report moving through one to get to the other.
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#8. Our limits are governed by flow's ability to amplify performance as much as by imagination's ability to dream up that performance.
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#9. It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.
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#10. creativity triggers flow; then flow enhances creativity.
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#11. Most people are so afraid of dying they never live.
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#12. It is not often that Death is told so clearly to fuck off.
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#13. After three decades of research, Zimbardo found that the healthiest, happiest, highest performers blend the best of both worlds. The optimal time perspective combines the energy, joy, and openness of Presents, with the strength, fortitude, and long-term vision of the Futures.
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#14. It was a silly time to try to make a living out of words, but it was a silly time in general.
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#16. Correct predictions result in understanding. Incorrect predictions result in confusion and prompt you to pay attention.
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#17. Big-box health clubs oversell memberships by 400 percent
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#18. Fully alive and deeply committed is a risky business.
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#19. Flow is more than an optimal state of consciousness - one where we feel our best and perform our best - it also appears to be the only practical answer to the question: What is the meaning of life? Flow is what makes life worth living.
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#20. With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.
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#22. From a quality-of-life perspective, psychologists have found that the people who have the most flow in their lives are the happiest people on earth.
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#23. Howard Thurman once said, Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs most is more people who have come alive.
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#24. When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.
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#25. Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.
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#26. To get around these things, Maus lived at the back of a closet. The door was
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#27. Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.
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#28. There wasn't anything wrong with these dogs. I wanted to take them all home with me. The whole damn warehouse of misery. Just strap it to my back and get the fuck out of the way.
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#29. During a peak experience," Maslow explained, "the individual experiences an expansion of self, a sense of unity, and meaningfulness in life. The experience lingers in one's consciousness and gives a sense of purpose, integration, self-determination and empathy.
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#30. That's why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.
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#31. Mindset impacts emotion, which alters biology, which increases performance. Thus, it seemed, by tinkering with mindset - using everything from physical to psychological to pharmacological interventions - one could significantly enhance performance.
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#32. To really achieve anything, you have to be able to tolerate and enjoy risk. It has to become a challenge to look forward to. In all fields, to make exceptional discoveries you need risk - you're just never going to have a breakthrough without it.
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#33. Flow tends to be the psychic signature of world-class performance and paradigm-shifting breakthroughs,
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#34. As it turns out, what makes a dog adoptable has very little to do with dogs, a great deal to do with humans.
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#35. Creativity has a brain wave signature as well: alpha waves pulsing out of the brain's right hemisphere.
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#36. The upper echelon of adventure sport athletes are grappling with the fundamental properties of the universe: gravity, velocity and sanity. They're toying with them, cheating death, refusing to accept there might be limits to what they can accomplish.
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#37. He defined the state as being so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost.
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#39. With this in mind, it is not inconceivable to say that there are people alive today who will live long enough to see their selves stored in silicon and thus, by extension, see themselves live forever.
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#40. The quality most desirable in a CEO? According to a global survey conducted by IBM of 1,500 top executives in sixty countries: creativity.
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