A Complete Recipe For Peak Performance - Steven Kotler - #305

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Oh, hello, you beautiful, beautiful people. Welcome back. My guest today is Steven Kotler. He's a peak performance expert, an entrepreneur and an author. The mystery of achieving peak performance is what many people are striving toward in life. Steven is a world expert in flow and through years of cutting edge research has finally created the recipe. Expect to learn how to build and break your motivation, the best way to hack your creativity, why Salvador Dali literally was drugs, the universal triggers you can use to drop yourself into flow, how to integrate peak performance protocols into your routine, and much more. Steven is an absolute force of nature. Like this guy, I can't believe that there are people who are so well-rounded and understand so much around the biology of performance as him. It genuinely feels like Steven's been alive for like 250 years or something. You're going to adore this episode. There's so much to take away from it. I can't wait. I'm already thinking about ways that I can get Steven back onto the show. Like he's just, he's an outstanding human and so many benefits can come from taking heed of all the bits of advice and wisdom that he gives us today. In other news, this episode is brought to you by brand new sponsor, Active Life RX. I've been working with the guys from Active Life RX since the beginning of the year. And I'd say that I'm probably pretty problematic as clients go. Obviously ruptured my achilles last year. I've still got lower back pain from a couple of years ago. Usually when you're working with a coach, they would specialize in just your strength or just your conditioning or just your rehabilitation or just your physiotherapy. Larry, my coach at Active Life RX and the rest of the healthcare professionals and doctors that work on their team understand the human system from a much broader perspective. So not only can you be gotten out of pain if you're dealing with an injury, if you're dealing with some sort of issues with regards to your physiology, they can get you out of that, but then continue to move you up through the different ranges of fitness. People have been led to believe that it's normal and inevitable that you need to live a life limited by the way that your body feels or performs, but that's not the case. The purpose of Active Life RX is to help people enjoy living an active life again, without having to go to the doctor to get out of pain or give up the things that you love to do. They have a team of doctors, athletic trainers and coaches who live the life that their clients live and were inspired by their own life experiences to solve the problems that clients face. They have the empathy, the education and the experience to help clients get from where they are to where they want to be. They're not a methodology but a mindset that codifies the best of what all methodologies have to offer. You can get a free consultation call with them today by going to activelifeprofessional.com/modernwisdom. That's activelifeprofessional.com/modernwisdom. Or there is a link in the show notes below. Just go and speak to them. If you're someone that is thinking, ah, I feel like this is gonna be the limiting factor for my fitness and the way that I perform athletically for the rest of my life. And maybe I'm gonna have to give up running or maybe I'm gonna have to give up going to the gym or maybe I'm gonna have to give up this. That's not the case. You can find coaches out there who have sufficient breadth of experience and understanding that they can get you through this and Active Life have been doing a really good job with me so far. So get yourself out of pain and reclaim your fitness by going to activelifeprofessional.com/modernwisdom.
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