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Feb 2021
18m 43s

Discovering Passion Doesn't Feel Like Pa...

JOHN MARTY
About this episode

Today’s guest is Steven Kotler.  Steven’s work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, he’s the executive director of the flow research collective, he’s one of world’s leading experts on human performance, author of 13 books - nine of which have become NYT best sellers including, the future is faster than you think, stealing fire, the rise of superman, and now the art of impossible a book that lays out a a specific formula that each of us can follow to live up to our full potential- and that is specifically what we’ll be diving into today.
 
 Resources:
https://www.theartofimpossible.com/
https://www.flowresearchcollective.com/
https://www.stevenkotler.com/
Art of Impossible book link on Amazon

Key Takeaways:

  • If you want to find passion - Start with Curiosity - keep an open mind - Embrace the Suck (Crawl, walk, run).
  • Peak performance builds like compound interest. 

Huge shout out to Jonathan Bernal our show's Chief Evangelist
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-ray-bernal/



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