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“It was clear from talking to them, that what kept them motivated was the quality of the experience they felt when they were involved with the activity. The feeling didn’t come when they were relaxing, when they were taking drugs or alcohol, or when they were consuming the expensive privileges of wealth. Rather, it often involved painful, risky, difficult activities that stretched the person’s capacity and involved an element of novelty and discovery.”
― Steven Kotler, The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Original Classic

“When you’re arrogant and egotistical,” says Dr. Olds, “you’re shutting out complexity, novelty, and unpredictability to preserve a distorted self-image. Any incoming information that could lead to self-doubt is stamped out. It’s a massive data reduction. Humility moves in the other direction, it opens us up and increases incoming information. As a result, there is more opportunity for pattern recognition, more dopamine, and less need for judgmental metacognition.”
― Steven Kotler, The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

“We all see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
― Steven Kotler, The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance