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Steven Kotler — Exponential Technologies, Achieving Flow States and The Art of Asking Great Questions

Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul

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The Five Books Is Stuck

When I was a journalist, for example, I had to be writing three to five articles at any one time just to be paying my bills and I was freelance. To get expert at a lot of subjects really quickly, you had to get it right. Getting it wrong was an easy way to never work again. So what I would do when I face a new subject, this could be neuroscience, it could be rocket science,. It could be anything. It doesn't matter. I start off with five books that I'll read before I have to know anything about the subject. The first book I'll start with the most popular bestseller thriller. If I could find a pass-pace thriller

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