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The Art of Impossible

A Peak Performance Primer

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Bestselling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler decodes the secrets of those elite performers—athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs and more—who have changed our definition of the possible, teaching us how we too can stretch far beyond our capabilities, making impossible dreams much more attainable for all of us.

What does it take to accomplish the impossible? What does it take to shatter our limitations, exceed our expectations, and turn our biggest dreams into our most recent achievements?

We are capable of so much more than we know—that’s the message at the core of The Art of Impossible. Building upon cutting-edge neuroscience and over twenty years of research, bestselling author, peak performance expert and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective, Steven Kotler lays out a blueprint for extreme performance improvement. If you want to aim high, here is the playbook to make it happen!

Inspirational and aspirational, pragmatic and accessible, The Art of Impossible is a life-changing experience disguised as a how-to manual for peak performance that anyone can use to shoot for the stars . . . space-suit, not included.

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I found the book to have some really great actionable information as well as being interesting.
However, it also contains a lot of pseudoscience, which I didn’t find added any value. I would much rather just have the empirical findings of what works and what doesn’t, than have everything accompanied with a supposedly scientific explanation.

Some really useful stuff in there

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Excellent guide to mastery and finding purpose, with a cocktail of scientifically proven concepts, gathering great ideas from other great books and high performers!
Easy to absorb, with good narration, well organised, you are going to need a notebook to register some mind-blowing ideas, applicable to your own journey.

Best step by step self improvement book!

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good book, been on the quest to find out how to tap in to flow easier and how to teach my kids to get hooked on it and let that creativity flow - better than any off that short term hippy happy bs

great book to help find flow faster

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This book is based on a whole study of pushing the barriers in life. I listened to it slowly and I think that is the best way to tackle this book. If you want to live up to your potential and do the impossible, I will wholeheartedly recommend this book and anything by Steven Kotler. Steven puts his heart and soul into his craft, his writing. A seasoned and thorough writer, one of my all time favourite writer.

Life Changer

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Lots of ideas, a book to take notes on. To read in bitesize chunks. Lots of positive reflections.

Good strategies, will relisten again to optimise.

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