Summary of Steven Kotler's The Art of Impossible

By IRB Media

Get the Summary of Steven Kotler's The Art of Impossible in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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!

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638154891

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Insights from Part 1

#1

A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. You need to start somewhere. Stalking the impossible means you need to start digging deep on a daily basis.

#2

There is a formula for the impossible. When we see the seemingly impossible become possible, we are witnessing the culmination of a quartet of skills—motivation, learning, creativity, and flow—that have been expertly applied and amplified.

#3

We can use science to figure out how to decipher these skills. We want to understand what makes each of them tick, and then use what we learn to make them tick even better— that is, to make our biology work for us rather than against us.

#4

Drive refers to powerful emotional motivators or feelings that drive our behavior automatically.

#5

Curiosity, passion, purpose, autonomy, and mastery are the five most powerful intrinsic drivers that we must learn to stack—that is, cultivate, align, amplify, and deploy them. We should concentrate on