Steven Kotler Quotes

• Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.

  Steven Kotler

  Self, Flow, Welcome

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• When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion. Intrinsic motivation goes through the roof. Thus flow becomes an alternative path to mastery, sans the misery.

  Steven Kotler

  Motivation, Mastery, Alternatives

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• Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

  Steven Kotler

  Failing

  "Einstein at the Beach: The Hidden Relationship Between Risk and Creativity" by Steven Kotler, www.forbes.com. October 11, 2012.

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• The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.

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  Reason, Universe

  Steven Kotler (2014). “The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.

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  Self, Insecurity, Doubt

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• ...Suddenly normal wasn't good enough.

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  Awakening, Normal, Good Enough

  Steven Kotler (2008). “West of Jesus: Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief”, p.183, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• That’s why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.

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  People, Entrepreneur, Groups

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• It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

  Steven Kotler

  Fear, Odds

  Steven Kotler (2008). “West of Jesus: Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the line, the bounds of the possible have been pushed further and faster than ever before in history. We've seen near-exponential growth in ultimate human performance, which is both hyperbolic paradox and considerable mystery. Somehow, a generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible, not just raising the bar but often obliterating it altogether. And this brings up one final question: Where-if anywhere-do our actual limits lie?

  Steven Kotler

  Sports, Lying, Adventure

  Steven Kotler (2014). “The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.

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  Crazy, Mean, Animal

  Steven Kotler (2011). “A Small Furry Hope: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life”, p.174, A&C Black

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