Name: The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
Price: 590.00 TWD
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Author: Steven Kotler
ISBN: 9781784291228

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The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

Type

Physical Book

Author

Steven Kotler

Publisher

Quercus

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781784291228

The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

Steven Kotler (Author) · Quercus · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance "

Right now, more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history. As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravity's Rainbow, 'it is not often that Death is told so clearly to f@%* off'. Over the past three decades, the bounds of the possible in action and adventure sports - from sky-diving to motocross to surfing and beyond - have been pushed farther and faster. A generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible; not just raising the bar, but obliterating it altogether. Along the way, they have become a force pushing evolution relentlessly onward. In a thrilling narrative that draws on biology, psychology, and philosophy, Steven Kotler asks why, at the tail end of the 20th century and the early portion of the 21st, are we seeing such a multi-sport assault on reality? Did we somehow slip through a wormhole to another universe where gravity is optional and common sense obsolete? And where - if anywhere - do our actual limits lie?

Steven Kotler

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Steven Kotler (Chicago, 1967) is a writer, journalist, and founder and CEO of the Flow Research Collective, a research and training institute for achieving high performance. His books have been translated into more than forty languages, have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and cited in magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Forbes, and Time. Among them, El ala oeste de Jesús (Ediciones La Llave, 2009) and Abundance (Antoni Bosch Editor, 2013), the latter also co-authored with Peter H. Diamandis, have been published in Spanish.

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