Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2021-04-08
Books mentioned on 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.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
-
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”
-
Flow
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a seminal psychology book that explores the optimal state of human experience, characterized by complete absorption and deep engagement in an activity where skills perfectly match the challenge.
Discussed“They wrote a book together called flow and sport and they tried to teach leading athletes using the psychology how to use flow”
-
Blood sport
Discussed“they wrote a book together called flow and sport and they tried to teach leading athletes using the psychology how to use flow”
-
Mindset
Carol S.
Discussed“when carol dweck gets stamford's mindset she means attitude towards learning”
-
Range
Range by David J.
Recommended“yeah david's work on range um in where he talks about range is brilliant”
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Stealing Fire
“he once pointed out and i wrote about this in residency meant or stealing fire”
Own book 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”
Own book 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”
Own book Stealing Fire
“because you know in stealing fire we write about jerusalem syndrome”