The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

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Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer written by Steven Kotler which was published in 2021-1-19. But how to make sure you stay in the game long enough to achieve your purpose—that’s exactly where we’re going next. But if adding autonomy to our motivational stack is required to get this added boost in performance, this raises another question: How much autonomy do we need to add? 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 . It’s an essential resource for those looking to align their curiosity, passion, and purpose to have not just a little more flow and creativity in their lives but to have a lot more flow and creativity.

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If you can zero in on that target, you’ve found a way to use your newfound passion to do some real good in the world. There are things no one knew were possiblebefore someone accomplished them: capital “I” Impossible feats. The major lesson of those years was that, no matter how mind-bendingly improbable a trick looked on the front end, there was always an understandable logic on the back end.

For now, just be aware that, in the mid-1980s, this duo introduced “self-determination theory” and, with it, their concept of “relatedness. Motivation is what gets you into this game; learning is what helps you continue to play; creativity is how you steer; and flow is how you turbo-boost the results beyond all rational standards and reasonable expectations.

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Along these lines, figuring out how to get paid to do what you love is another lowercase i impossible. If this isn’t possible in your life today, start with the 3M plan: devote 15 percent of your time to a project that aligns with your core passion and purpose. Kotler demystifies the mythic, breaking down that formula and giving readers exactly the tools they need to accomplish their dreams, no matter how big.When we’re curious about a subject, doing the hard work to learn more about that subject doesn’t feel like hard work. These are pleasure drugs that make us feel good when we accomplish, or try to accomplish, anything that fulfills a basic survival need. Now that you’ve identified the spots where curiosities overlap, play in those intersections for a little while.

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Para enviar este mensaje, el cerebro se apoya en cuatro componentes básicos: la neuroquímica y la neuroelectricidad, que son los mensajes propiamente dichos, y la neuroanatomía y las redes, que son los lugares donde se envían y reciben esos mensajes. Scarcity of resources is always the largest threat to our survival, making it the largest driver of evolution.And we’ll use this information to significantly accelerate ourselves down the path toward impossible.

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But built correctly, life will feel exciting, interesting, full of possibility, and thick with meaning. The more dopamine you get, the more fun and addictive the experience; the more fun and addictive the experience, the more you can’t wait to do it again. This is also why Tim Ferriss tells entrepreneurs to start out with a hobbyist approach to their first start-up: nights and weekends.And while curiosity alone is a potent driver, it’s also a foundational ingredient in passion, which is an even bigger driver. We’re letting our pattern recognition system find connections between curiosities that make us even more curious—which is how you cultivate passion. They shared an interest in the science of motivation, which led to a long conversation, which led to a fifty-year collaboration that overturned most of the foundational ideas in that science of motivation.