Motivation is what gets you into this game; learning is what helps you continue to play; creativity is how you steer; and flow is how you turbo-boost the results beyond all rational standards and reasonable expectations. That, my friends, is the real art of impossible.” But how to make sure you stay in the game long enough to achieve your purpose—that’s exactly where we’re going next. For three years, the author struggled with Lyme disease, an illness that can cause flu-like symptoms and severe brain fog. The disease reduced him to a shadow of his former self, leaving him barely able to walk, and with reduced concentration and failing vision.

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Recall the fifth intrinsic motivator, mastery. To attain mastery, you need expertise. And to acquire expertise, you’ll need to learn – a lot. We even have a special term for it: lifelong learning. The first time I saw the impossible I was nine years old. This was 1976, the year of the Bicentennial, and the purveyor of impossible was my younger brother. He was seven.The point is that curiosity, by itself, is not enough to create true passion. There’s just not enough neurochemistry being produced for the motivation you require. Instead, you want to look for places where three or four items on your curiosity list intersect. If you can spot the overlap between multiple items, well, now you’re cooking. There’s real energy there. What does it take to accomplish the impossible? What does it take to shatter our limitations, exceed our expectations, and turn our biggest dreams into our most recent achievements? We are capable of so much more than we know—that’s the message at the core of The Art of Impossible. Building upon cutting-edge neuroscience and over twenty years of research, bestselling author, peak performance expert and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective, Steven Kotler lays out a blueprint for extreme performance improvement. First, the obvious: that damn ball was gone. Second, the slightly less obvious: my little brother wasn’t magic.

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In 1977, when Edward Deci and Richard Ryan were both young psychologists at the University of Rochester, they bumped into each other on campus.1 Deci had just become a clinical practitioner, and Ryan was still a grad student. They shared an interest in the science of motivation, which led to a long conversation, which led to a fifty-year collaboration that overturned most of the foundational ideas in that science of motivation. Stalking the impossible demands digging deep on a daily basis. Laotzu wasn’t wrong: the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.2 But it’s still a journey of a thousand miles. Uphill, in the dark, both ways. Bestselling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler decodes the secrets of those elite performers-athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs and more-who have changed our definition of the possible, teaching us how we too can stretch far beyond our capabilities, making impossible dreams much more attainable for all of us.Aha!” Everyone knows that feeling you get when you finally solve a difficult puzzle or understand a joke. We might call this a moment of insight. Of this, I was certain. In our seven overlapping years of coexistence, nothing he’d yet done defied the laws of physics. There had been no accidental levitations and no one, when Dad’s favorite coffee cup went missing, accused my brother of teleporting it to other dimensions. So even though he’d accomplished the impossible, if my brother wasn’t magic, there had to be an explanation. Perhaps a skill set. Maybe a process. Superb. A helpful and/or enlightening book that is extremely well rounded, has many strengths and no shortcomings worth mentioning. Insider’s take – You’ll have the privilege of learning from someone who knows her or his topic inside-out. But drive doesn’t consist of just one thing. There are various drivers, like fear, curiosity, and passion. All of these provide psychological fuel –⁠ and you can harness them to achieve the impossible.