Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (629 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062429663 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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His books include Tomorrowland, Bold, The Rise ofSuperman, Abundance, A Small Furry Prayer, West of Jesus, and The Angle Quickest for Flight. He studied historical anthropology under MacArthur Fellow Patricia Nelson Limerick, specializing in utopian social movemen
Highly Recommended Expands on the FLOW State covered in "The Rise Of Superman" and ties together several other concepts.. "Revolution for mind body and spirit performance" according to Mikel Aizpurua. Wonderful complete book to help us all get into a new level of consciousness, goal setting, development in our lives.. Amazingly Well Structured & Informative Megan Better than anything I've ever read, this book makes a logical case for the altering normal mental state - through a variety of ecstatic experiences - and leaves the reader to decide - it they wish - which pathways forward call them.
Driven by four accelerating forces—psychology, neurobiology, technology and pharmacology—we are gaining access to and insights about some of the most contested and misunderstood terrain in history. They're harnessing rare and controversial states of consciousness to solve critical challenges and outperform the competition. NATIONAL BESTSELLER “A mind-blowing tour along the path from sex and drugs to R&D.” - Financial Times It’s the biggest revolution you’ve never heard of, and it’s hiding in plain sight. New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler and high performance expert Jamie Wheal spent four years investigating the leading edges of this revolution—from the home of SEAL Team Six to the Googleplex, the Burning Man festival, Richard Branson’s Necker Island, Red Bull’s training center, Nike’s innovation team, and the United Nations’ Headquarters. Over the past decade, Silicon Valley executives like Eric Schmidt and Elon Musk, Special Operators like the Navy SEALs and the Green Berets, and maverick scientists like Sasha Shulgin and Amy Cuddy have turned everything we thought we knew about high performance upside down. And what they learned was stunning: In their
“A mind-blowing tour along the path from sex and drugs to R&D.” (Financial Times)“Stealing Fire is a beautifully written, must-read for anyone interested in living up to their full potential. Kotler and Wheal have produced a user-manual for your hacking your brain to drive high performance.” (Peter Diamandis, founder of the X Prize, co-chairman of Singularity University, bestselling author)“Stealing Fire cracks the secret code of peak performance so that ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.” (Cdr. If you’re at all interested in knowing how your mind works, this is imperative reading!” (Salim Ismail, founding executive director of Singularity University and bestselling author of Exponential Organizations)&ld