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Loading... The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance (edition 2014)by Steven Kotler (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Extreme sports professionals have been pushing the boundaries of human performance beyond anything anybody thought possible by tapping into a state that apparently we all have inside of us, and which the proximity to death brings out. How do we tap this state without risking our lives? This is the book that answers that from a biochemical, neurological, historical and psychological way. People without ideas do inconsequential things and some of them die. This is meant to inspire me but I find this pointless slaughter depressing. Then there's some pseudo science about flow. I'd like to coin a new phrase to describe this nonsense: stoner science. If you ever uttered the phrase "far out bro" unironically this book might be for you. no reviews | add a review
"An exploration of how extreme athletes are able to break the limits of ultimate human performance and what we can learn from their mastery of the state of consciousness known as "flow." "-- No library descriptions found. |
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The awful thing is this flow is by definition, only when you dont make a mistake and lose your life falling off a mountain, so maybe a better name for this flow is luck? ( )