“The past three decades have witnessed unprecedented growth in what researchers now term ultimate human performance. This is not the same as optimal human performance, and the difference is in the consequences. Optimal performance is about being your best; ultimate… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the line, the bounds of the possible have been pushed further and faster than ever before in history. We've… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“When you strip everything else away, technology is nothing more than the promise of an easier tomorrow. It’s the promise of hope. And how… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“With the prefrontal cortex down-regulated, most impulse control mechanisms go offline too. For people who aren't used to this combination, the results can be… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“of the benefits of spaying and neutering, it wasn’t until the 1990s that their catchy tag line, “Less born, less killed, less cruelty,” really… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“The quality most desirable in a CEO? According to a global survey conducted by IBM of 1,500 top executives in sixty countries: creativity.” — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops. — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“According to the official numbers, shelters take in somewhere between six million and eight million dogs and cats every year and euthanize about half… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“A quick search on Google yields over 11.5 billion hits for the word “time.” In comparison, more obvious topics of interest like sex and… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“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… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“Our limits are governed by flow’s ability to amplify performance as much as by imagination’s ability to dream up that performance.” — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“As it turns out, what makes a dog adoptable has very little to do with dogs, a great deal to do with humans.” — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Given that seven of the top twenty most-visited sites on the Web are porn sites, and that nearly 33 percent of all Internet searches… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness,” — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
