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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4.4
11 reviews
Jake M-K
November 26, 2023
This is unfortunately yet another audiobook to add to the plethora of audiobooks with suboptimal narration where the narrator's tone is too low energy and slightly monotone because they are trying to sound professional and perfect but they are forgetting to sound real and energized about the material and thus are not really communicating emotionally and aurally what they are reading because they are more focused on sounding perfect. I cannot listen to a voice like that for 9 hours because it is basically phony, not real. The worst part is that it's literally harder to listen to and harder to absorb what they're saying so it's counterproductive and would be a highly annoying challenge to force myself to listen to it in terms of trying to absorb the material. The same is true for the narrator in Gnar Country by Kotler. Steven, please read it yourself or have Rian or somebody who understands the material and is excited about it redo your audiobooks.
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Able Michael
May 15, 2023
Well done. Thought provoking, useful, and actionable.
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ABID ALI
May 12, 2024
THANXX
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About the author

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the executive director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance. He is the author of eleven bestsellers (out of fourteen books total), including The Art of Impossible, The Future Is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, and The Rise of Superman. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, has been translated into more than fifty languages, and has appeared in more than one hundred publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, the Atlantic, Time, and the Harvard Business Review. Steven is also the cohost of Flow Research Collective Radio, a top ten iTunes science podcast. Whenever possible, he can be found hurling himself down mountains at high speeds.

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