The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
By: Steven Kotler
4.22
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Bestselling author, peak performance expert and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective,…
Want to Read $ 12.49"Happiness becomes untethered to income, because once we can meet our basic needs, the lure of all the stuff it took to meet them, begins to lose its luster. Once extrinsic drivers start to fade, intrinsic drivers take over."-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
"Guilford also realized that divergent thinking wasn't entirely free wheeling: It had four core characteristics. Fluency, the ability to produce a great number of ideas in a short time-frame; flexibility, the ability to approach a problem from multiple angles; originality, the ability to produce novel ideas; elaboration, the ability to organize those ideas and execute on them."-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
"Once, unfortunately, in a crisis situation (as the Greek poet Archilochus pointed out so long ago) we don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. Once again, the issue is fear. The more fear in the equation, the fewer options at our disposal. In times of strife, the brain limits our choices to speed up our reaction times. The extreme example being, fight or flight, where the situation is so dire, that the brain gives us only potential actions. Freezing is the third, yet the same thing happens to a lesser degree under any high stress conditions. And the responses we fall back upon under duress, are the ones we fully automatized: those habitual patterns we've executed over and over again."-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
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