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Stealing Fire
- How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We LIve and Work
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Summary
The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving, in this groundbreaking book in the vein of Daniel Pink's Drive and Charles Duhigg's Smarter Faster Better.
Why has generating "flow" and getting "into the zone" become the goal of the world's most elite organizations? Why are business moguls attending Burning Man? Why has meditation become a billion-dollar industry? Why are technology gurus turning to psychedelic drugs to unlock creativity?
All of these people are seeking to shift their state of mind as a way of unlocking their true potential. Altered states, the authors reveal, sharpen our decision making capabilities, unleash creativity, fuel cooperation, and let us tap into levels of inspiration and innovation unavailable at all other times. Stealing Fire combines cutting-edge research and first-hand reporting to explore a revolution in human performance - a movement millions of people strong to harness and utilize some of the most misunderstood and controversial experiences in history.
Building a bridge between the extreme and the mainstream, this groundbreaking and provocative book examines how the world's top performers - the Navy SEALS, Googlers, Fortune 100 CEOs - are using altered states to radically accelerate performance and massively improve their lives, and how we can too.
Ultimately, Stealing Fire is a book about profound possibility - about what is actually possible for ourselves and our species when we unlock the full potential of the human mind.
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-02-17
Gamechanger....
Ridiculously good and for me it is exactly what I needed... Gamechanger...gratitude...what a gift for humanity!
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- BarefootRonin
- 22-03-17
Seemingly A Pro-Drugs Guide With Little Direction
Would you try another book written by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal or narrated by Fred Sanders?
Nope. I have no idea what the point of this book is. I got 5 hours in and it just seems to be telling us that (some) people take drugs and that can/may make them 'perform' better. Thanks guys... Nobody knew that! I wasted 5 hours of my life.
Would you ever listen to anything by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal again?
Not a chance - Two words: Credit Refund.
Would you listen to another book narrated by Fred Sanders?
No.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Stealing Fire?
All of the content.
Any additional comments?
Don't buy this book unless you want a 'text' book on how drugs have been used to alter perception. Waffle waffle waffle. I may be being a dullard but I have no idea what the authors are trying to tell us other than some drugs may be good if you want to experience other worlds or enhance perception with pharmaceuticals. Little or NO practical information.
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- Ciprian
- 26-03-17
The first book that I really reasonate with
This book answered to some of my existential questions. Once you start reading the first chapter you can't stop
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- elliottm79
- 28-05-19
Halfway through opinion
Basically this book keep on exploring what the author defines as Ecstasies mostly involved sex (bdsm, kink and orgasms) drug use and other kinds of getting out of the consciousness in various ways to be better... he keeps on mentioning Google and the Seal team to offer some sort of credibility.
Waste of my day and money. I’d say avoid but many seem to disagree with that. Could the second part be so much better?! I doubt it :(((
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- Anonymous User
- 30-04-20
Dangerous rubbish
Just listening to Steven Kotler's book and had to return it to audible. This guy pushes drugs and twists history. But this is the age of the new techy shaman and i know i should not be surprised but some of this guys stuff is shockingly dangerous! And he comes as the all-knowing sharer of wisdom and by dissing virtually the whole of humanities True discoverers and Real sharers of the Divine maliciously shuts up the opposition ie the billions of genuine people made in the image and likeness of God. And so wonderfully made don’t need to get spaced out on psychotic inducing drugs!
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- Em
- 23-07-17
What a treat !! 1st Review ever
Where does Stealing Fire rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
One of the best. I loved this book so much I am finally writing a review. Mind bending, I'm heavily in to the Brain, Neuro plasticity, epigenetics, quantum physics mindfulness etc. I usually get a book and its the same old research presented slightly differently. This book was so refreshingly new, I had no idea these things were going on.
I love books that are thought provoking and leave me somewhat confused and wanting to know more. This is one of those books, I'm off to listen to it again with a pen and paper.
Excellent.
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- Tristan R.
- 01-08-17
Wow!
I've never get the urge to write a review before, but this is one of the best books I've ever read/heard. A very insightful and interesting look into altered states, which it turns out comes from all sorts of activities and is growing. Fast.
If you're interested in learning about the minds potential and ways you can think outside the box, I would highly recommend this book.
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- Mr S Harrison
- 10-05-21
Pseudo-science for humanities dropouts
This book might be mildly entertaining if you can suspend or are incapable of logical/rational/scientific thought. In this book you are treated/exposed to the authors mile wide and inch deep musings on fringe aspects of modern science, all the while being tenuously threaded together like the worst kind of Donald Trump conspiracy nonsense, to the point where if you A) have the attention span of a 5 year old or B) the education of one, to believe any of it (this is probably unfair to 5 years olds).
This book really shows us why people with backgrounds in creative writing and history respectively are not best suited to either audit or write a book trying to draw conclusions from modern science. Whilst I would be the first t admit that combinations of seemingly opposing wings of science can lead to great advances, I would also add that only happens when do so under appropriate scientific control. I would advise anyone who actual read and enjoyed this book to read something like 'Bad Science' by Ben Goldarce and then re-read this.
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- JohnJenner
- 24-04-17
thought provoking
definitely a different prospective on performance and flow than I held before.
an interesting weave of history, present and future
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-06-21
Loved it
I never realised how many of us are seeking to alter our state of mind, and to what lengths people are willing to go.
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