Steven Kotler II: Science of Ecstatic States, Tribal Mind, Flow | Ep. 115

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist and the co-founder/director of research for the Flow Genome Project. He is one of the world’s leading experts on ultimate human performance.

His previous book, The Rise of Superman, was one of the most talked about books in 2013 and the first book in history to land on national bestseller lists in the sports, science, and business categories simultaneously. In it, Steven decodes the science of flow, an optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best.

His writings have been translated into over 40 languages and appeared in over 80 publications, including The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Forbes, Wired and TIME. He also writes “Far Frontiers,” a blog about science and culture for Forbes.com, appears frequently on television and radio, and lectures widely on technological, scientific and cultural issues, both to corporate and education institutions.

Alongside his wife, the author Joy Nicholson, Steven is the cofounder of Rancho de Chihuahua, a dog sanctuary in the mountains of Northern New Mexico. He has a BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an MA from Johns Hopkins University and, whenever possible, can be found hurling himself down mountains at high speeds.

Learn more at http://www.stevenkotler.com/

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0:00.0	I said empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water.
0:08.0	It's about how hard you hit.
0:10.0	It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
0:13.6	How much you can take and keep moving forward?
0:16.4	Join the movement expert Aaron Alexander
0:19.4	as he dives into the minds of the foremost innovative health care thinkers and movement masters on their approach to optimal health and wellness.
0:28.0	A Line Podcast.
0:30.0	Now there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about.
0:34.0	Politicians.
0:35.6	Everybody complains about politicians.
0:38.5	Everybody says they suck.
0:40.4	Well, where do people think these politicians come from?
0:43.0	They don't fall out of the sky.
0:45.0	They don't pass through a membrane from another reality.
0:48.0	They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools,
0:52.0	American churches, American businesses, American schools, American
0:53.2	businesses, and American universities, and they're elected by American
0:56.7	citizens. This is the best we can do, folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces. Garbage in, garbage out.
1:07.0	Welcome back to the Lyme Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. In today's beautiful episode, I got to have my friend Mr Stephen Kotler on the show Stephen needs no introduction I'm sure
1:16.4	For one thing it's the second time in the show for nothing he is
1:20.9	Ultra-renowned author, journalist. He is New York Times best-selling author of, a co-author of
1:27.6	abundance, Rise of Superman, and his most recent book which we get into today is stealing fire.
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