Steven Kotler is an American author and expert in the field of peak performance and the evolution of human potential through consciousness.
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The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise.
Resolve to do the things you find to be difficult. That’s what confident people do. They tackle those things that are scary and they get addicted to doing it.
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For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.
To be a learner, you’ve got to be willing to be a fool.
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton’s famous phrase.
Perhaps we’ll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.
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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?