About the Author

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning journalist. As the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective, he is one of the world's leading experts on high performance. His recent work, Stealing Fire, co-authored with Jamie Wheal, was a national bestseller. It documents an underground revolution in peak performance that is rapidly going mainstream, fueling a trillion dollar economy and forcing us to rethink how we lead more satisfying, productive and meaningful lives. Kotler also co-writes with Peter H. Diamandis, among those titles are the New York Times bestsellers Abundance and Bold.

Reviews

"Reading Stealing Fire, Mr. Lang-Willar said, he became convinced that nothing less than a 'cultural awakening' was underway." -- The New York Times
"A mind-blowing tour along the path from sex and drugs to R&D." -- Financial Times
"Stealing Fire is a beautifully written, must-read for anyone interested in living up to their full potential. Kotler and Wheal have produced a user-manual for your hacking your brain to drive high performance." -- Peter Diamandis, founder of the X Prize, co-chairman of Singularity University, bestselling author
"Stealing Fire cracks the secret code of peak performance so that ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results." -- Cdr. Mark Divine (USN Ret.), New York Times best selling author, founder SEALFIT and Unbeatable Mind
"Meticulously researched and innovatively conceptualized, Stealing Fire is not just a bible for the second psychedelic revolution (drugs not required), but a manual to getting more: out of your body, your mind, and your happiness." -- Neil Strauss, New York Times best-selling author of The Game
"An electrifying, fast-paced journey into the deep potential of the human brain." -- David Eagleman, Stanford University neuroscientist, bestselling author, presenter of PBS's The Brain
"Our linear lives and brains need to be thrown a curve on occasion and this is a masterpiece literary curveball." -- Chip Conley, bestselling author of Peak and Emotional Equations and former Head of Strategy for AirBnB
"Captures the unspoken essence of what men and women on the frontier of human experience, think and do to excel in creativity and performance." -- Michael Gervais, High Performance Psychologist to Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks
"Stealing Fire lays out exactly how to hack the brain...Kotler and Wheal have taken a major bite out of the unknown. If you're at all interested in knowing how your mind works, this is imperative reading!" -- Salim Ismail, founding executive director of Singularity University and bestselling author of Exponential Organizations
"Stealing Fire is a fantastic book about the future of humanity and everything that we can become. Based on incredible stories and cutting edge data, it reveals how our brain and body can be optimized to its greatest potential." -- Andrew Newberg, MD., director of research Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine and author of How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain
"The North Star we've been waiting for--finally a distillation of the upper reaches of the human experience unveiled! I am so excited for this book to reach the world!" -- Jason Silva, artist, futurist, host of National Geographic's Brain Games
"[Stealing Fire is] well-written, well-documented, and significant work." -- Library Journal