Steven Kotler

“creativity triggers flow; then flow enhances creativity.”

— Steven Kotler

...Suddenly normal wasn't good enough.

— Steven Kotler

“We are the ones that we’ve been waiting for. — ALICE WALKER”

— Steven Kotler

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

— Steven Kotler

“Most people are so afraid of dying they never live.”

— Steven Kotler

“It is not often that Death is told so clearly to fuck off.”

— Steven Kotler

“The United States is in a tough spot.”

— Steven Kotler

“Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their…

— Steven Kotler

“The ability to learn faster than your competitors is the only sustainable competitive advantage.”

— Steven Kotler

Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.

— Steven Kotler

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

— Steven Kotler

“Those highlight moments forever seared in your memory: that too is group flow in action.”

— Steven Kotler

“From a quality-of-life perspective, psychologists have found that the people who have the most flow in their lives are the happiest people…

— Steven Kotler

“To get around these things, Maus lived at the back of a closet. The door was”

— Steven Kotler

With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.

— Steven Kotler

“No one can claim their particular vision of the divine as correct, if there are thousands of other 'visions' with which to…

— Steven Kotler

“happiness raises nearly every business and educational outcome: raising sales by 37 percent, productivity by 31 percent, and accuracy on tasks by 19 percent,”

— Steven Kotler

“Sooner or later, there’s always a Jaws: a mental hurdle we can’t clear, a decision too dangerous to attack head on. In…

— Steven Kotler

“This means flow packs a double punch: it doesn’t just increase our decision-making abilities—it increases our creative decision-making abilities. Dramatically.”

— Steven Kotler

“Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the frenzy with which you should be inoculated? Behold, I…

— Steven Kotler

“couple dozen men under Rich Davis’s command, the SEAL unit charged with capturing, not killing, Al-Wazu, were an exceptionally well-oiled $85 million…

— Steven Kotler

“In flow, we are so focused on the task at hand that everything else falls away. Action and awareness merge. Time flies.…

— Steven Kotler

“When you strip everything else away, technology is nothing more than the promise of an easier tomorrow. It’s the promise of hope.…

— Steven Kotler

“Norepinephrine and dopamine typically underpin “romantic love,” endorphins and oxytocin link mother to child and friend to friend, anandamide and serotonin deepen…

— Steven Kotler

“While we've painted the guardians of the pale in a somewhat reactionary light, let's give the gatekeepers their due. What lies beyond…

— Steven Kotler

“In Lovelock's view the earth was a 'super-organism,' a cybernetic feedback system that 'seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life…

— Steven Kotler

“When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repetitive stories we…

— Steven Kotler

“Without question, paddling fast enough to catch a possibility wave like abundance means we’ll need the most capable versions of ourselves doing…

— Steven Kotler

“Ecstatic technology isn't limited to silicon chips and display screens. As John Lilly's early research established, it's the knowledge of how to…

— Steven Kotler

“the Altered States Economy totals out to roughly $4 trillion a year. That’s a sizable chunk of our income that we annually…

— Steven Kotler

“Training in high-stress situations increases what psychologists call “situational awareness.” Defined as the ability to absorb information accurately, assess it calmly, and…

— Steven Kotler

“And the dark night of flow is an issue that society has not made particularly easy to handle. How many people have…

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“So, when we do experience a non-ordinary state that gives us access to something more, we feel it first as something less—and…

— Steven Kotler

“At most puppy mills, they pack the dogs into wire cages, usually for the entirety of their lives, often in pitch-black conditions.…

— Steven Kotler

“The Everglades are dying. Nearly half of their 4 million acres have been swallowed up by sprawl and sugarcane. Almost 70 plant…

— Steven Kotler

“[T]he self “is not an unmitigated blessing,”6 writes Duke University psychologist Mark Leary in his aptly titled book, The Curse of the…

— Steven Kotler

“That day, after barely resurfacing from a seventy-two meter warm up dive into the Blue Hole, Mevoli went into cardiac arrest and…

— Steven Kotler

“As it turns out, what makes a dog adoptable has very little to do with dogs, a great deal to do with…

— Steven Kotler

“Flow is an alternative path toward mastery, but, like any path, not without its pitfalls. There’s a serious dark side to flow,”

— Steven Kotler

“Creativity has a brain wave signature as well: alpha waves pulsing out of the brain’s right hemisphere.”

— Steven Kotler