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Everywhere we look in business, timetables once measured by calendars can now be clocked by egg timers. So how can we keep up? In a word—and according to an ever-increasing pile of evidence—“flow."
“How many surf bums who can’t keep a job washing dishes will be up at 5 AM putting on a gritty, sandy wetsuit to paddle out in cold, sharky water for just one shot at a barrel? That’s motivation. If you could bottle that, then what’s possible?”
According to ‘Stealing Fire’ authors Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal, there’s a new $4 trillion high performance revolution fueling the Navy’s SEAL Team Six and high profile executives in Silicon Valley and Wall Street to the top of their game but no one on the mainstream level knows about it...
A few months back, Jamie had the chance to travel down to Sir Richard Branson’s Caribbean paradise, Necker Island, where he sat down with the Virgin magnate to discuss the role flow has played in helping shape his multi-billion dollar empire.
Risky pursuits like BASE jumping offer a buzz better than any drug. New technologies provide the same rush without the danger.
I spoke to both Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal, coauthors of the national bestseller Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work, about why they focused on performance enhancement for their book, their four accelerating...
SEALs go against most default approaches to leadership, training and execution to excel under adversity.
For a long time, research into flow states was subjective—researchers had to rely on people’s self-reported experiences to understand altered states of mind.
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I saw spiritual attainment and I thought, ‘That does not need to be religious. That can be scientific.’
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