书籍介绍
这本书最值得一读之处,在于它把'心流'从一种玄之又玄的灵验体验,还原成可被脑电波测量的神经现象:它告诉你,心流状态下前额叶皮质并非更活跃,反而被'关闭',大脑是用得更少而非更多。作者史蒂芬·科特勒的野心不小——他想把顶尖运动员、艺术家、科学家的卓越表现拆解成可复制的机制。但真正让读者放下书的,是那句'能力因需求而产生'与'挣扎是一个加载过程':它不给你灌鸡汤,而是承认低谷、恐惧、压力本身就是引擎。它适合那些厌倦了励志叙事、想从脑科学与行动方案层面理解'人究竟如何被推上极限'的人。当然,也有读者嫌它废话过多、对心流的强调略显偏执——但正因如此,它更像一份诚实的'精神资源管理'手册,而非又一个保证你成为高手的承诺。
作者简介
Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance. He is the author of nine bestsellers (out of thirteen books total), including The Art of Impossible, The Future Is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, Bold and Abundance. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, translated into over 40 languages, and appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, TIME and the Harvard Business Review. Steven is also the cohost of Flow Research Collective Radio, a top ten iTunes science podcast. Along with his wife, author Joy Nicholson, he is the cofounder of the Rancho de Chihuahua, a hospice and special needs dog sanctuary.