Smart People Podcast

Steven Kotler - Peak Performance Aging: Crushing It As You Get Older

Mar 14, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

5min

The Importance of Understanding Your Readers

2min

The Importance of Listening

2min

NAR Country, Growing Old Staying Rad

5min

The Long, Slow Rot Theory of Aging

3min

The Peak Performance Aging Experiment

3min

NARS Country: A Playbook for Peak Performance Aging

4min

How to Not Stop and Not Be Interrupted

3min

Peak Performance Aging in a Single Sentence

5min

10.

The Power of Deliberate Play

4min

11.

The Importance of Social Activity in Peak Performance Aging

5min

12.

The Relationship Between Bone Density and Optimism

4min

13.

How to Park Ski and Get to Intermediate

2min

14.

The Importance of Pattern Recognition in Skiing

6min

15.

How to Filter Your Life for Yeses and Noes

5min

16.

The Importance of Multi-Tail Solutions in Peak Performance Aging

4min

17.

The Problems With Golf

4min

18.

The Importance of Continuous Movement in Life

2min

19.

How to Implement Flow in Your Work

2min

20.

The Difference Between Rise as Superman and Now

5min

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance and is the author of 11 bestselling books (out of 14!!!). His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes.

Steven's newest book, Gnar Country: Growing Old, Staying Rad, is available now.

Find out more about Steven at stevenkotler.com and gnarcountry.com.

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