A Wall Street Journal bestseller.
In this groundbreaking book, New York Times bestselling author Steven
Kotler decodes the mystery of ultimate human performance. Drawing on
over a decade of research and firsthand reporting with dozens of top
action and adventure sports athletes like big wave legend Laird
Hamilton, big mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones, and skateboarding
pioneer Danny Way, Kotler explores the frontier science of "flow," an
optimal state of consciousness in which we perform and feel our best.
Building a bridge between the extreme and the mainstream, The Rise of
Superman explains how these athletes are using flow to do the
impossible and how we can use this information to radically accelerate
performance in our own lives.
At its core, this is a book about profound possibility; about what is
actually possible for our species; about where--if anywhere--our limits
lie.