Using adversity to our advantage | Steven Kotler | S2E2
UNSTOPPABLE with Kerwin Rae
Afar - March 30, 2021 01:36 - 51 minutes - 48.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode of Unstoppable, I had the opportunity to speak with Steven Kotler, the Executive Director of Flow Research Creative, a business that looks to help individuals accomplish their most ambitious professional goals by unlocking their peak possible human performance.
Steven has been labeled as one of the world’s leading experts on human performance, having written numerous books which are New York Times best-selling. Alongside his incredible knowledge, Steven has been honoured as an award-winning journalist, further adding to his incredible understanding of psychology and human behaviour, which makes him an incredible guest to learn from.
In this podcast, Steven and I share ideas surrounding the importance of self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and how adversity can contribute to a greater consciousness… and how adversity can be used to your advantage.
In this podcast you will learn:
02:00 How Steven got into the area of peak performance 06:00 Connection between tough upbringings and peak performance 09:00 Relationship between self-preservation and peak performance 19:00 Steven’s new book: The Art of Impossible 22:00 Where does motivation start? 28:00 Steven’s opinion on the author of DRIVE 31:00 The six levels of grit 38:00 The six things key performance comes to 43:00 Entrepreneurial recovery