Steven Kotler

“The United States is in a tough spot.”

— 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

“With the prefrontal cortex down-regulated, most impulse control mechanisms go offline too. For people who aren't used to this combination, the results…

— Steven Kotler

“of the benefits of spaying and neutering, it wasn’t until the 1990s that their catchy tag line, “Less born, less killed, less…

— Steven Kotler

“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

The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.

— Steven Kotler

“According to the official numbers, shelters take in somewhere between six million and eight million dogs and cats every year and euthanize…

— 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

“A quick search on Google yields over 11.5 billion hits for the word “time.” In comparison, more obvious topics of interest like…

— Steven Kotler

“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…

— Steven Kotler

“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

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

— 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

“Given that seven of the top twenty most-visited sites on the Web are porn sites, and that nearly 33 percent of all…

— 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

“listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go. — E. E. CUMMINGS”

— 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

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

— Steven Kotler

“There wasn’t anything wrong with these dogs. I wanted to take them all home with me. The whole damn warehouse of misery.…

— Steven Kotler

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

— 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

When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater…

— Steven Kotler

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

— Steven Kotler

“When risk is a challenge, fear becomes a compass—literally pointing people in the direction they need to go next”

— Steven Kotler