The Business Method: Interviewing Billionaires, Billion Dollar Founders & the World’s Most Successful People 🎧🔥 Ep.493 ~ Dissecting the Art of Impossible w/ Steven Kotler
Feb 24, 2021
In this enlightening discussion, Steven Kotler, a NYT bestselling author and founder of Flow State Collective, dives into the art of achieving the impossible. He reveals his four-part formula for peak performance: motivation, learning, creativity, and flow. Kotler explains the neurochemistry behind flow and its evolutionary significance. He emphasizes the importance of cognitive literacy, goal setting, and the balance between challenge and skill to spark creativity and avoid burnout—making the seemingly unattainable achievable for all.
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We’re Hardwired For Extraordinary
- Humans are biologically hardwired to tackle high, hard challenges and can be made extraordinary by aligning neurobiology.
- Steven Kotler argues peak performance follows repeatable, decodable patterns anyone can apply.
Studying Near‑Misses Revealed Predictable Pitfalls
- Steven Kotler recounts studying hundreds who almost succeeded and repeatedly 'tripped over their biology.'
- He wrote the book to decode the repeatable patterns that let some push past those pitfalls.
Follow The Motivation→Learning→Flow Sequence
- Start with motivation, then learn, add creativity, and finish with flow to turbo-boost performance.
- Follow the sequence because these skill-sets evolved in that order and stack best sequentially.
