Steven Kotler

TheNew York Timesbestselling "manifesto for the future that is grounded in practical solutions addressing the world's most pressing concerns: overpopulation, food, water, energy, education, health care and freedom" (The Wall Street Journal). Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional wisdom says this gap cannot be closed. But it is closing-fast. InAbundance, space entrepreneur turned innovation pioneer Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other exponentially growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years. We will soon have the ability to meet and exceed the basic needs of every person on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. Breaking down human needs by category-water, food, energy, healthcare, education, freedom-Diamandis and Kotler introduce us to innovators and industry captains making tremendous strides in each area. "Not only isAbundancea riveting page-turner...but it's a book that gives us a future worth fighting for. And even more than that, it shows us our place in that fight" (The Christian Science Monitor).

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era. In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of powerful new entrepreneurs. Now the bestselling authors are back with The Future Is Faster Than You Think, a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next ten years of rapid technological disruption. Technology is accelerating far more quickly than anyone could have imagined. During the next decade, we will experience more upheaval and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years. In this gripping and insightful roadmap to our near future, Diamandis and Kotler investigate how wave after wave of exponentially accelerating technologies will impact both our daily lives and society as a whole. What happens as AI, robotics, virtual reality, digital biology, and sensors crash into 3D printing, blockchain, and global gigabit networks? How will these convergences transform today's legacy industries? What will happen to the way we raise our kids, govern our nations, and care for our planet? Diamandis, a space-entrepreneur-turned-innovation-pioneer, and Kotler, bestselling author and peak performance expert, probe the science of technological convergence and how it will reinvent every part of our lives-transportation, retail, advertising, education, health, entertainment, food, and finance-taking humanity into uncharted territories and reimagining the world as we know it. As indispensable as it is gripping, The Future Is Faster Than You Think provides a prescient look at our impending future.

A radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools, Bold unfolds in three parts. Part One focuses on the exponential technologies that are disrupting today's Fortune 500 companies and enabling upstart entrepreneurs to go from "I've got an idea" to "I run a billion-dollar company" far faster than ever before. The authors provide exceptional insight into the power of 3D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, networks and sensors, and synthetic biology. Part Two draws on insights from billionaires such as Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos and reveals their entrepreneurial secrets. Finally, Bold closes with a look at the best practices that allow anyone to leverage today's hyper-connected crowd like never before. Here, the authors teach how to design and use incentive competitions, launch million-dollar crowdfunding campaigns to tap into tens of billions of dollars of capital, and finally how to build communities-armies of exponentially enabled individuals willing and able to help today's entrepreneurs make their boldest dreams come true.

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. 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. If you want to aim high, here is the playbook to make it happen! Inspirational and aspirational, pragmatic and accessible, The Art of Impossible is a life-changing experience disguised as a how-to manual for peak performance that anyone can use to shoot for the stars . . . space-suit, not included.

Hogyan találhatunk rá igazi életcélunkra és szenvedélyünkre? Miképpen építhetjük be a csúcsteljesítők szokásait a mindennapjainkba? Hogyan fejleszthetjük kulcskészségeinket, hogy megvalósíthassuk nagyratörő terveinket? Sokkal többre vagyunk képesek, mint hinnénk, és lehetetlennek tartott álmaink is elérhetőek. Steven Kotler teljesítmény-szakértő és flow-kutató az idegtudomány legfrissebb eredményeire és több mint húsz éve tartó kutatásaira építve bevezet a kimagasló teljesítmény titkaiba. Felvázolja a csúcsteljesítmény biológiai hátterét, és megmutatja, hogyan találhatjuk meg saját „lehetetlenünket”, amelynek megvalósítása valóban motivál bennünket, ahogy azt is, mely készségeinket kell fejlesztenünk céljaink érdekében, és milyen szokások kialakításával indulhatunk el a csúcs felé vezető úton. A legkiválóbb sportolók, művészek, tudósok és vállalatvezetők példája alapján segít abban, hogy a megfelelő motiváció és tanulási folyamat révén tartósan kreatívak maradhassunk, a lehető leggyakrabban elérve a flow állapotát, ezáltal pedig meghaladjuk képességeinket, és valóra váltsuk legmerészebb álmainkat. STEVEN KOTLER a The New York Times sikerkönyves szerzője, díjnyertes újságíró, a Flow Research Collective alapítója és ügyvezető igazgatója. A jövő gyorsabban itt lesz, mint gondolnánk, az Abundance és a Bold társszerzője, a The Rise of Superman szerzője. Írásait kétszer jelölték Pulitzer-díjra, és több mint negyven nyelvre fordították le. Cikkei többek között a The New York Times Magazine, a The Atlantic, a Wired, a Forbes és a Time hasábjain jelentek meg. Bővebb információ: stevenkotler.com