Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2021-04-08
Chris Williamson & Steven Kotler: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #305
A Complete Recipe For Peak Performance - Steven Kotler - #305
Steven Kotler is a peak performance expert, entrepreneur and an author. The mystery of achieving peak performance is what many people are striving toward in life.
Steven Kotler recommended Range by David J. Epstein, and discussed Effortless attention, Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Mindset by Carol S. Dweck. Chris Williamson recommended The Art of Impossible by Steven Kotler.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Effortless attention
Discussed“um and uh I think that argument is made actually in this book effortless attention which is a book on of one of the textbooks on flow”
Where to get it
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Flow
Discussed“They wrote a book together called flow and sport and they tried to teach leading athletes using the psychology how to use flow”
Where to get it
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Mindset
Discussed“when carol dweck gets stamford's mindset she means attitude towards learning”
Where to get it
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Range
Recommended“yeah david's work on range um in where he talks about range is brilliant”
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The Art of Impossible
Recommended“the art of impossible a peak performance primer will be linked in the show notes below on amazon”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Stealing Fire
“he once pointed out and i wrote about this in residency meant or stealing fire”
Plugged Abundance
“um so the work i did that i wrote about in a small furry prayer um sort of put forth a different idea that a bunch of us sort of think might be true”
Plugged A small furry prayer
“um so the work i did that i wrote about in a small furry prayer um sort of put forth a different idea”
Plugged The Art of Impossible
“if you read the art of impossible and you're let's say your top 30 percent of whatever it is you're doing that could be stamp collected right i don't care”
Plugged The Art of Impossible
“basically in the book of the beginning of art impossible i talk about how do you line up all your intrinsic motivators”
Plugged The Art of Impossible
“so art impossible comes out right right the new book comes out”
Plugged Stealing Fire
“because you know in stealing fire we write about jerusalem syndrome”
Plugged The Art of Impossible
“so are impossible breaks down the flow triggers or you know stevencottler.com or flowresearchcollective.com”