How to stay motivated during a cold, winter Covid lockdown
January 19, 2021
Peak performance expert Steven Kotler emphasized the importance of putting an “active recovery protocol” in place at the end of the day, which is particularly key in winter when people tend to feel more burned out.
The Passion Recipe: Four Steps To Total Fulfillment
March 27, 2015
Over the past few decades, “passion” has been declared everything from the secret to successful entrepreneurship to the foundation of a meaningful life...
Billionaire Wisdom: 8 Insights From a Quartet of the World’s Most Effective Entrepreneurs
February 9, 2015
Until very recently, taking on grand challenges was off-limits for most people. Historically, going big meant huge capital outlays and multi-decade bets...
Superhuman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
March 6, 2014
Not a lot of writers can say they have broken just shy of 100 bones in their research for a story. When Playboy published my feature "Superhuman" in the February 2012 issue, I didn't realize I was still only at the beginning of my reporting. The story is about athletes using flow states to achieve unbelievable performance.
This is how the future arrived. It began innocuously, in the early 2000s, when businesses started to realize that highly skilled jobs formerly performed in-house...
It's May 2007 and I'm driving from Los Angeles, California to Chimayo, New Mexico in a beat-up truck packed floor-to-ceiling with the detritus of my life and too many dogs...
Hollywood Science: Can we use FMRI to make horror movies even scarier?
May 6, 2010
Scanning your brain while you watch horror movies might hold the key to making them even more frightening. The findings could reshape the way scary movies—perhaps all movies—are filmed
When Life Flashes Before Your Eyes: A 15-Story Drop to Study the Brain's Internal Timewarp
April 12, 2010
A few moments ago, I was strapped into a harness and winched 150 feet into the air. Four massive steel girders support my weight, and I can see that I'm...
For the first time in 40 years, the medical community is using psychedelic drugs such as LSD as therapeutic tools, dosing combat-addled Iraq vets and diseased patients coming to grips with their impending death. This is the story of medical adventurers and their high-flying patients.
One of the leading conservationists and primatologists, Pat Wright has helped protect land and produced a first-class field research station, among other things.
This is how the future arrived. It began innocuously, in the early 2000s, when businesses started to realize that highly skilled jobs formerly performed in-house...
It's May 2007 and I'm driving from Los Angeles, California to Chimayo, New Mexico in a beat-up truck packed floor-to-ceiling with the detritus of my life and too many dogs...
Hollywood Science: Can we use FMRI to make horror movies even scarier?
May 6, 2010
Scanning your brain while you watch horror movies might hold the key to making them even more frightening. The findings could reshape the way scary movies—perhaps all movies—are filmed
When Life Flashes Before Your Eyes: A 15-Story Drop to Study the Brain's Internal Timewarp
April 12, 2010
A few moments ago, I was strapped into a harness and winched 150 feet into the air. Four massive steel girders support my weight, and I can see that I'm...
For the first time in 40 years, the medical community is using psychedelic drugs such as LSD as therapeutic tools, dosing combat-addled Iraq vets and diseased patients coming to grips with their impending death. This is the story of medical adventurers and their high-flying patients.
One of the leading conservationists and primatologists, Pat Wright has helped protect land and produced a first-class field research station, among other things.