Name: Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy Seals, and Maverick Scientists are Revolutionizing the way we Live and Work
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Author: Steven Kotler
ISBN: 9780062429667

portada Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy Seals, and Maverick Scientists are Revolutionizing the way we Live and Work

Type

Physical Book

Author

Steven Kotler

Jamie Wheal

Publisher

Dey Street Books

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.0 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9780062429667

Synopsis "Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy Seals, and Maverick Scientists are Revolutionizing the way we Live and Work "

National BestsellerCNBC and Strategy + Business Best Business Book of the YearIt's the biggest revolution you've never heard of, and it's hiding in plain sight. 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. Instead of grit, better habits, or 10,000 hours, these trailblazers have found a surprising short cut. They're harnessing rare and controversial states of consciousness to solve critical challenges and outperform the competition. 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. And what they learned was stunning: In their own ways, with differing languages, techniques, and applications, every one of these groups has been quietly seeking the same thing: the boost in information and inspiration that altered states provide. Today, this revolution is spreading to the mainstream, fueling a trillion dollar underground economy and forcing us to rethink how we can all lead richer, more productive, more satisfying lives. 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. Stealing Fire is a provocative examination of what's actually possible; a guidebook for anyone who wants to radically upgrade their life.

Steven Kotler

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Steven Kotler (Chicago, 1967) is a writer, journalist, and founder and CEO of the Flow Research Collective, a research and training institute for achieving high performance. His books have been translated into more than forty languages, have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and cited in magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Forbes, and Time. Among them, El ala oeste de Jesús (Ediciones La Llave, 2009) and Abundance (Antoni Bosch Editor, 2013), the latter also co-authored with Peter H. Diamandis, have been published in Spanish.

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