The Rise of Superman, Steven Kotler
The Rise of Superman, Steven Kotler
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The Rise of Superman
Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

Author: Steven Kotler

Narrator: Steven Kotler

Unabridged: 7 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/04/2014

Synopsis

A Wall Street Journal bestseller.In this groundbreaking book, New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler decodes the mystery of ultimate human performance. Drawing on over a decade of research and firsthand reporting with dozens of top action and adventure sports athletes like big wave legend Laird Hamilton, big mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones, and skateboarding pioneer Danny Way, Kotler explores the frontier science of “flow,” an optimal state of consciousness in which we perform and feel our best.Building a bridge between the extreme and the mainstream, The Rise of Superman explains how these athletes are using flow to do the impossible and how we can use this information to radically accelerate performance in our own lives.At its core, this is a book about profound possibility; about what is actually possible for our species; about where—if anywhere—our limits lie.

About Steven Kotler

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. He is the author of nine bestsellers (out of thirteen books total), including The Art of Impossible, The Future Is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, Bold, and Abundance. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, been translated into over forty languages, and appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, TIME, and the Harvard Business Review. Steven is also the cohost of Flow Research Collective Radio, a top-ten iTunes science podcast. Along with his wife, author Joy Nicholson, he is the cofounder of the Rancho de Chihuahua, a hospice and special needs dog sanctuary.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris on March 22, 2014

I think it's important to first note that the author Steven Kotler is the "Director of Research" for the Flow Genome Project. So although he is indeed an award-winning journalist in other contexts, he has skin in the game he's pitching with this book. That said, I don't think what Kotler is pitching......more

Goodreads review by Mario on May 21, 2015

I was hoping that the big idea of this book would to give a few "hacks" on how to master flow in your life but the book really didn't deliver. The main value I got out of it were the stories about the pioneers of extreme sports and how they used flow to push beyond what was considered possible for a......more

Goodreads review by Klinta on January 19, 2021

I picked up this book not actually knowing what it was about. It turned up in my circles a few times, so I decided to go ahead and see, and so spent most of this book finding excuses why I don't really enjoy it. Until I let go and admitted that some books just don't work for some people and that is......more

Goodreads review by Steve Mueller on March 23, 2014

i thought I was really going to like this book when I first started reading it. The ideas were exciting and the promise of investigating the neuroscience was appealing. The stories of the of the extreme athletes were engaging at first and then it became some sort of worship of the gods. It quickly d......more

Goodreads review by Dominick on June 01, 2014

Amazing. This book caused a shift in the way I interact with the world, and I don't think I'll ever go back. Having never been introduced to the concept of "Flow," Kotler enlightened me from multiple vantage points: the emotional angle, the scientific element, and the dark side. He uses the extreme spo......more

Quotes

“A thrill ride of a book, empowering in its implications of what any individual can achieve.” —Kirkus Reviews“A fascinating primer on how athletes of extreme sports use flow to accomplish what seem like impossible goals, such as skiing down cliffs or surfing 100-foot waves. But a close reading of the book also provides great insights into how everyday athletes can use flow in their workouts and the rest of their lives.” —Financial Times“Kotler takes on the latest research on flow through the lens of action and adventure athletics…[Writing] primarily about flow in high-stakes sports like surfing—where focus and concentration can be the difference between a tubular ride and a watery death—but the concept could also have big implications for the business world.” —Fortune

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