"What Kotler is seeking is nothing less than the big explanation."
- Village Voice

about
steven

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance. He is the author of 11 bestsellers (out of fourteen books), including The Art of Impossible, The Future is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, Bold and Abundance. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, translated into over 50 languages, and has appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, TIME, and the Harvard Business Review.

*This is Steven being dropped 150 feet into a circus net as part of Stanford neuroscientists David Eagleman’s experiment to study Flow’s impact on the passage of time.
A lifelong environmentalist and animal rights advocate, Steven is the cofounder of Planet Home, a conference/concert/innovation accelerator focused on solving critical environmental challenges, the cofounder of The Forest + Fire Collective, a network of individuals, organizations and institutions dedicated to ending catastrophic wildfire and restoring forest health to the American West. Alongside his wife, author Joy Nicholson, he is also the co-founder of Rancho de Chihuahua, a hospice care and special needs dog sanctuary.
PS: Steven once flew a MIG-17 Russian fighter jet—but that’s a different story.
*This is Steven being dropped 150 feet into a circus net as part of Stanford neuroscientists David Eagleman’s experiment to study Flow’s impact on the passage of time.
*This is Steven with some of the Rancho de Chihuahua rescue dogs.

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