The Art of Impossible

出版者:Harper Wave

作者:Steven Kotler

页数:336

出版时间:2021-1-19

价格:USD 17.41

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780062977533

具体描述

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.

作者简介

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance. He is the author of nine bestsellers (out of thirteen books total), including The Art of Impossible, The Future Is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, Bold and Abundance. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, translated into over 40 languages, and appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, TIME and the Harvard Business Review. Steven is also the cohost of Flow Research Collective Radio, a top ten iTunes science podcast. Along with his wife, author Joy Nicholson, he is the cofounder of the Rancho de Chihuahua, a hospice and special needs dog sanctuary.

读后感

[乐观不等同于幼稚的鸡汤，悲观不意味着正确的理性] 当人们寻求励志的鸡汤与正能量时，其潜意识的目标在于能够「成事」、能够通过” 被鼓励 “来实现现实世界的成就：一番卓越的事业、一款划时代的产品、一项他人不可能企及的任务 / 使命。 于是，要讨论「励志」就必须讨论它潜...  

如果2021年让我推荐一本书，我就会推荐你读这本《跨越不可能》英文标题更为直接——“不可能”的艺术：关于巅峰表现的读本。。。 作者开篇就讲了自己曾多年与世界顶尖极限运动员厮混在一起的记者生涯，他惊叹于身边这些人面对“不可能”的创造力以及自己本人惊人的变化。。。 ...  

用户评价

非常有意思的一本书，顺手翻译了一下。中文版见 https://yejunbin.github.io/the_art_of_impossible_cn

This is perfect to read if one does meditation.

好书，适合追求卓越的人读

近几十年成长类书籍的集大成者。

从微博的硅谷王川老师那里看到推荐这本书，用了三天看了不到一半，最后一天找到了flow，三个小时，一口气看完了。很多可以实践的方法论。快速了解一个学科的五本书➕搜索信息的方法醍醐灌顶。