Steven Kotler quotes

Steven Kotler is a renowned author, speaker, and expert on flow states and peak performance. With a focus on science, technology, and innovation, he has written multiple best-selling books including "The Rise of Superman" and "Abundance." Kotler is the founder of the Flow Research Collective, a research and training organization aimed at helping individuals unlock their full potential. His work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times and Forbes. Follow Steven Kotler for insights on achieving optimal performance and flow in your life. Keywords: Steven Kotler, flow states, peak performance, author, speaker, innovation, best-selling books, Flow Research Collective, potential, optimal performance.

This is what the self-help books don’t tell you. Fully alive and deeply committed is a risky business. Once you strip away the platitudes, a life of passion and purpose will always cost, as T. S. Eliot reminds us, 'not less than everything'.

- Steven Kotler

According to the official numbers, shelters take in somewhere between six million and eight million dogs and cats every year and euthanize about half of them.

- Steven Kotler

Animals are often fed mechanically, so their only human contact comes, and this is only in the case of breeder dogs, in the form of artificial insemination and, nine weeks later, a pair of hands snatching babies away.

- Steven Kotler

As it turns out, what makes a dog adoptable has very little to do with dogs, a great deal to do with humans.

- Steven Kotler

At most puppy mills, they pack the dogs into wire cages, usually for the entirety of their lives, often in pitch-black conditions. There are waste collection trays beneath these cages, but they’re rarely emptied. Flies are a constant. With no air-conditioning in the summer and no heat in the winter, dogs freeze to death or die from heatstroke with regularity. During the hottest months, when the cage metal heats up, puppies have been known to cook on the wires. The food is poor and veterinary care infrequent. Open sores, tissue damage, blindness, deafness, ulcers, tooth decay — even rotting jaws because the tooth decay has gotten so bad — are more the rule than the exception.

- Steven Kotler

When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.

- Steven Kotler