Steven Kotler Collection 3 Books Set (The Art of Impossible [Hardcover], The Rise of Superman, Stealing Fire)

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. The Rise of A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme sport are redefining the limits of being human.

Right now, more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history.

As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravity'’s Rainbow, 'it is not often that Death is told so clearly to f@%* off'.

Over the past three decades, the bounds of the possible in action and adventure sports. Stealing FireSteven Kotler and high performance expert Jamie Wheal spent four years investigating the leading edges of this revolution——from the home of SEAL Team Six to the Googleplex, the Burning Man festival, Richard Branson’'s Necker Island, Red Bull’'s training center, Nike’'s innovation team, and the United Nations’ Headquarters.

And what they learned was In their own ways, with differing languages, techniques, and applications, every one of these groups has been quietly seeking the same thing.