THE RISE OF SUPERMAN

A great book.Facts collected in this book and thoroughly studied by some of the greatest researchers put together not only the importance of flow in nutshell, but how to approach flow state! The book has encapsulated some of the best sports spirit including Danny Way,McConkey and many more. This is first step towards realizing your power!

Worth it .Exactly what I hope to find in this one. . . . . . . . . . .

If you're into finding why we are the way we are with some of our behaviour & why some folks are better at doing their own things & how the super achievers lifestyle are. All these are told from pure science form

Nice book

This book mainly covers the adventure sports enthusiasts and how they tried to go up to super human potential. The thing I could take away from this book is that the hurdles are mainly in our mind and we can achieve flow if we indeed conquer our fears.

Amazing for every sports-man and athlete.

It helps us to look into the mindset of people who achive exceptional feet in diffrent field. It's all about flow n how we can find the same ourself.

Another masterpiece by Steven Kotler. He’s (along with Jamie-Wheal)been my go-to author for any work on ‘flow’. Incredibly excited about the Flow-Genome Project.

Review – The Rise of Superman Steven Kolter “The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance” by Steven Kolter, founder and director of the Flow Genome Project, is a masterful followup to what Abraham Maslow and Mihaly Csikzentmihalya started years ago with the “Hierarchy of Needs” and “Flow.” This book traces the thoughts and achievements made possible by Flow through ultimate sports rapidly escalating achievements and then into music, play, work, and art. Kolter then projects what a possible future could be like, what with youth seeing the already high achievements, and then using heightened imagination and Flow technics to achieve even more astounding levels of achievement in nearly every field of human endeavor. Along the way Steven Kolter maps out the necessary triggers and bases for Flow to occur. These are well laid out. Steven Kolter devotes a chapter to the Dark Side of Flow. That is, what happens to individuals who find themselves in the doldrums, in life circumstances where time and priorities of life do not allow time for Flow. Mr. Kolter also addresses that Flow, with it's constant need for challenge, does lead many people into very risky areas of achievement, and that many have lost their lives or livelihood in the chase of Flow. Mr. Kolter emphasizes that Flow is the left hand path to success, not the right hand path of 10,000 hours practice. This is a scary chapter, but an aspect of Flow that must be addressed. The book reads well. I would put the grade level at about 11 or 12. The book is exciting, replete with lots of stories of extreme sports with rule breaking achievements and world record setting in such as skateboarding, snowboarding, acrobatic skiing, rock climbing, and the individuals who made the jumps in achievements in the ultimate sports. I feared in the third chapter that Mr. Kolter was going to go ultra technical in biometrics, bioanatomy, and bioneural chemistry, but he did not, pulling up just short of going overboard with those concepts. Yes, he does refer repeatedly to hypofrontality, and names serotonin and norepinephrine and other brain chemicals, but these are well explained and demonstrated. Not all of the material in the book is new. Mr. Kolter is standing on the shoulders of the giants who have gone before him. Mr. Kolter acknowledges those giants. But Mr. Kolter has achieved making the concepts of ultimate human performance accessible and understandable.

An excellent follow up to the book “Flow”

The book highlighted experiences I have had in the past which were when I was in a flow state and didn't know it. It also gave me the tools I need to seek out and experience more flow in my life.

I've already read this as a Kindle format book several times, and for very good reason. First of all, the way it's written is fast-paced and fascinating. Incredible stories of extreme-sport and stunt professionals, and the science behind how they perform seamlessly under pressure is riveting and awe-inspiring. Second of all, learning the science is invaluable in today's world of distraction and chaos. I find that the more I understand flow state, the easier it is to get into flow state. Which leads to the last point: literally learning about flow state makes you better prepared to enter into it, and Steven Kotler gives you the tools to induce a flow state whenever you want (for the most part). Why get the physical book? Because I find my deepest and most meaningful learning is greatly facilitated by tactile experiences. It's also far more memorable when you physically highlight something in a book or write in the margins than it is doing those tasks on your electronic device (multi-stimulae memory). And of course I want to be able to lend this to my family members as we travel the world, so we can remind ourselves how to get into a state of flow when we're under pressure. If you're interested in reaching a high state of flow, this book won't disappoint. It teaches, it entertains, and it backs it up with fascinating science.

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