Steven Kotler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.
-- Steven Kotler

#Crazy #Mean #Animal
It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.
-- Steven Kotler

#Fear #Odds
Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where ***** really were on the line, the bounds of the possible have been pushed further and faster than ever before in history. We've seen near-exponential growth in ultimate human performance, which is both hyperbolic paradox and considerable mystery. Somehow, a generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible, not just raising the bar but often obliterating it altogether. And this brings up one final question: Where-if anywhere-do our actual limits lie?
-- Steven Kotler

#Sports #Lying #Adventure
...Suddenly normal wasn't good enough.
-- Steven Kotler

#Normal #Awakening #Enough
With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.
-- Steven Kotler

#Self #Insecurity #Doubt
Thatâ€™s why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.
-- Steven Kotler

#People #Entrepreneur #Flow
When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion. Intrinsic motivation goes through the roof. Thus flow becomes an alternative path to mastery, sans the misery.
-- Steven Kotler

#Motivation #Alternatives #Hints
Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.
-- Steven Kotler

#Failing
The reasons there are so many clichÃ©s about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.
-- Steven Kotler

#Reason #Universe
Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.
-- Steven Kotler

#Self #Flow #Welcome

You may also like:

Alvin Toffler
Writer
Barney Frank
Former U.S. Representative
Edwin Catmull
Computer Scientist
Erik Brynjolfsson
Academic
George Friedman
Political Scientist
James Altucher
Entrepreneur
Jason Silva
Television Personality
Jeremy Jones
Snowboarder
Laird Hamilton
Surfer
Matt Ridley
Journalist
Maysoon Zayid
Actress
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Professor
Peter Diamandis
Physician
Peter Thiel
Entrepreneur
Philip Kotler
Author
Ray Kurzweil
Author
Ryan Holiday
Author
Susannah Cahalan
Author
Travis Rice
Snowboarder
Andrew McAfee
Author