100 Quotes by Steven Kotler

Imagination,” says futurist and philosopher Jason Silva, “allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

As CNN recently reported: “A decade of research in the business world proves happiness raises nearly every business and educational outcome: raising sales by 37 percent, productivity by 31 percent, and accuracy on tasks by 19 percent, as well as a myriad of health and quality-of-life improvements.

Once danger becomes its own reward, risk moves from a threat to be avoided to a challenge to be risen toward.

It was a silly time to try to make a living out of words, but it was a silly time in general.

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs most is more people who have come alive.

When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repetitive stories we tell about it, with fresh eyes. Come Monday morning, we may still clamber back into the monkey suits of our everyday roles – parent, spouse, employee, boss, neighbor – but, by then, we know they’re just costumes with zippers.

We pay to watch, read, or be in the presence of a flow experience. If quantified, you’d find it’s a major chunk of the GDP.

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn’t actually exist at all.

Perhaps you will live along some distant day into the answer.