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Steven Kotler is an American author, journalist, and entrepreneur. His articles have appeared in over 70 publications, including The New York Times Magazine, LA Times, Wired, Time Magazine, GQ, Discover, Popular Science, Outside, Men’s Journal, Details and National Geographic Adventure. He is best known for his non-fiction books, including the New York Times bestseller Abundance, A Small Furry Prayer, West of Jesus, Bold, The Rise of Superman and Stealing Fire.

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The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.

Clichés, Dewdrops, Reason, Reasons, Universe, Universes

When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion. Intrinsic motivation goes through the roof. Thus flow becomes an alternative path to mastery, sans the misery.

Alternatives, Future, Mastery, Motivation, Possible, Version

That’s why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.

Entrepreneur, Group, Groups, People, Serial

Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.

Action, Flow, Self, Welcome

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

Creatives, Fail, Failing, Good, Ones

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

Actually, Afraid, Exist, Fear, Odds, Thing

When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.

Animal, Beliefs, Crazy, Mean, Number, Say

Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the line, the bounds of the possible have been pushed further and faster than ever before in history. We've seen near-exponential growth in ultimate human performance, which is both hyperbolic paradox and considerable mystery. Somehow, a generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible, not just raising the bar but often obliterating it altogether. And this brings up one final question: Where-if anywhere-do our actual limits lie?

Adventure, Final, Iconoclastic, Lying, Misfits, Sports

With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.

Doubt, Insecurity, Self, Way

. . . Suddenly normal wasn't good enough.

Awakening, Normal, Good Enough, Enough, Good