The rise of superman
"An exploration of how extreme athletes are able to break the limits of ultimate human performance and what we can learn from their mastery of the state of consciousness known as "flow." "
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3people
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67% recommend33% neutral
What Hacker News says
- I love Steven Kotler's books, The Rise of Superman but not Art of Impossible. I will check it out, thanks!
- Then for those athletes, they might pursue the following books with the same zeal as the OP:
The Rise of Superman
Art of Impossible
- Kotler's The Rise of Superman goes into how some these meta-performance skills are a big part of what's being transferred more and more effectively. There's young kids doing mind blowing things in extreme sports like skateboarding and BMX that were unimaginable to even the top echelon of the sports a few decades ago.
It's exciting to see transfer learning's effects in near real time, as a lot of that has occurred over my lifetime. I just wish meta learning was more accessible and common knowledge. As it stands, I find myself continually having to do my own research to uncover ways to improve my own improvement.
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