Steven Kotler Bücher

Schneller, höher, weiter – mehr denn je bestimmt dieses Motto unsere heutige Zeit. Gesteigerte Kreativität; Bewusstseinszustände, die uns ganz neue Optionen eröffnen; Spitzenleistungen quasi auf Knopfdruck: Viele Pioniere und Innovatoren arbeiten daran. Unternehmen wie Tesla, Google, Nike und Red Bull kooperieren mit Neurobiologen, Psychologen oder Pharmakologen. Sie alle wollen dem Geheimnis von Spitzenleistungen auf die Spur kommen und Abkürzungen auf dem Weg dorthin finden. Also keine 10.000 Stunden mehr, um beispielsweise ein Meister in der Kunst der Meditation zu werden. Und Durchbrüche stehen kurz bevor. Silicon-Valley-Insider Steven Kotler und Flow-Experte Jamie Wheal kennen die Bemühungen um Spitzenleistung aus erster Hand. In ihrem Buch zeigen sie, wie unsere gängigen Vorstellungen über Bewusstsein, Kreativität und Leistung auf den Prüfstand gestellt und Grenzen verschoben werden.

Steven Kotler hatte durch eine zweijährige Borreliose-Erkrankung alles verloren: seine Gesundheit, seinen Job, seine Freundin, und, wie er argwöhnte, auch seinen Verstand. Eigentlich kein religiöser Mensch, fühlte er sich plötzlich zum Wellenreiten hingezogen, als wäre es der Grundpfeiler einer neuen Religion. Er begann sich zu fragen: Warum konnte er, nachdem ihm nichts geblieben war, woran er glaubte, eine nahezu religiöse Hingabe an das Wellenreiten entwickeln? Was ist Glauben eigentlich und wie funktioniert er im Körper, im Gehirn, in unserer Kultur und der Geschichte der Menschheit? In Mexiko hörte er eine Geschichte über ein Wesen, das die Brandung des Meeres dirigieren soll. Nachdem er diese Erzählung bereits Jahre zuvor in Indonesien gehört hatte, entschied er sich, den Ursprung dieser Legende zu suchen. Dabei begab er sich auf eine drei Jahre dauernde Reise rund um den Globus. Bereit und offen für alles, surfte er große Wellen, machte Bungee-Jumping und vertiefte sich in die Geschichte des Surfens, in Mystik, Jung sche Psychologie, Zen-Buddhismus, Wetter-Experimente der US-Regierung, die Religion der Maori und Hawaiianer und die Funktionsweise des menschlichen Gehirns. Durch seine detaillierten Beschreibungen erschafft Kotler ein Werk, dass die spannendsten Elemente von Autobiographie, Reisebericht und wissenschaftlicher Ausarbeitung vereint in ein lebendiges Abenteuer. Das Ergebnis ist eine erstaunliche Mischung aus großen Wellen und noch größeren Ideen die Reise eines Surfers zu den Wurzeln des Glaubens.

This book is for anyone who has worked very hard at something--in business, life, sport, music, hobbies--and stopped seeing progress. In these pages, John K. Coyle explores the intersection of two popular frameworks¿Design Thinking and Strengths-finding¿and shows how they can be combined to achieve breakthrough performance. Coyle demonstrates how to leverage the mindset and process of Design Thinking to define the ¿right¿ problem, and to ask and answer a ¿better question.¿ Instead of ¿how do I fix my weaknesses,¿ he re-defines the central challenge of ¿how can I design for my strengths?¿ To illuminate these concepts, Coyle weaves a fascinating thread from ¿Imaginariums" as a student under Stanford's David Kelley, to world-class racing as a cyclist and speedskater, to applying Design Thinking to emerging business problems. With contributions from more than a dozen leading experts, including Steven Kotler, David Kelley, David Eagleman, Daniel Coyle and Chip Conley, as well as Olympic gold medalists, Apolo Ohno and Meryl Davis, this book will engage, entertain and inform.At its core, this book is about sharing the tools and mindsets required to find and reveal hidden potential, and imparting the belief that each and every one of us contains the capacity to do something extraordinary - if we design for it.

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.

The authors document how four forces--exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion--are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. "Abundance" establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for governments, industry and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism

Bold is a radical, how-to guide forcing exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions. Exploring the exponential technologies that are disrupting today's Fortune 500 companies and enabling upstart entrepreneurs to go from 'I've got an idea" to "I run a billon dollar company" far faster than ever before the authors provide exceptional insight into the power of 3-D printing, artificial intelligence, tobotics, networks and sensors, and synthetic biology. Drawing on insight from Billionaire entrepreneurs Larry Page, Elon Musk. Richard Branson, and, Jeff Bezos, the book often the best practices that allow anyone to leverage today's hyper-connected crowd like never before. The authors teach how to design and use incentive competitions, launch million dollar crowdfunding campaigns to tap into lens of billions of dollars of capital and build, communities-armies of exponentially enabled individuals willing and able to help today's entrepreneurs make their boldest dreams come true. Book jacket.

Providing abundance is humanity's grandest challenge--this is a book about how we rise to meet it. Abundance for all is within mankind's grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces the near-term future.

Steven Kotler was forty years old and facing an existential crisis—which made him not too different from just about every other middle-aged guy in Los Angeles. Then he met Joy, a woman devoted to the cause of canine rescue. "Love me, love my dogs," was her rule, and not having any better ideas, Steven took it to heart. Together with their pack of eight dogs—then fifteen dogs, then twenty-five dogs, then, well, they lost count—Steven and Joy bought a tiny farm in a tiny town in rural New Mexico and started the Rancho de Chihuahua, a sanctuary for dogs with special needs. While dog rescue is one of the largest underground movements in America, it is also one of the least understood. This insider look at the cult and culture of dog rescue begins with Kotler's personal experience working with an ever-peculiar pack of dogs and becomes a much deeper investigation into exactly what it means to devote one's life to the furry and the four-legged. Along the way, Kotler combs through every aspect of canine-human relations, from human's long history with dogs through brand new research into the neuroscience of canine companionship, in the end discovering why living in a world of dogs may be the best way to uncover the truth about what it really means to be human.

Exponentiell denken in Zeiten des Umbruchs Wenn zwei New York Times-Bestsellerautoren für ihr neuestes Werk unter anderem auf Erkenntnisse von Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard Branson und Jeff Bezos zurückgreifen, dann kommt heraus: ein radikales Manifest, wie exponentiell denkende Unternehmer in den nächsten Jahren die Welt erändern werden. Peter Diamandis und Steven Kotler untersuchen die Technologien, die aktuell ganze Industrien umwälzen und den Weg eines Gründers von 'Ich habe eine Idee' zu 'Ich führe ein Milliardenunternehmen' so kurz wie nie zuvor gemacht haben. Sie geben tiefe Einblicke in die Welt von 3D-Druck, künstlicher Intelligenz, Robotern, intelligenten Netzen und synthetischer Biologie. Sie zeigen, wie man millionenschwere Crowdfunding-Kampagnen lostritt und erfolgreiche Communities gründet. 'Bold' ist Manifest und Ratgeber gleichermaßen. Es ist unverzichtbar für moderne Unternehmer, die disruptive Technologien und die unglaubliche Macht der Crowd nutzen wollen.

A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme sport are redefining the limits of being human. Right now, more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history. As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravity's Rainbow, 'it is not often that Death is told so clearly to f@%* off'. Over the past three decades, the bounds of the possible in action and adventure sports - from sky-diving to motocross to surfing and beyond - have been pushed farther and faster. A generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible; not just raising the bar, but obliterating it altogether. Along the way, they have become a force pushing evolution relentlessly onward. In a thrilling narrative that draws on biology, psychology, and philosophy, Steven Kotler asks why, at the tail end of the 20th century and the early portion of the 21st, are we seeing such a multi-sport assault on reality? Did we somehow slip through a wormhole to another universe where gravity is optional and common sense obsolete? And where - if anywhere - do our actual limits lie?