#8 What’s Possible Is a Moving Target - Steven Kotler on Flow, Identity, and the Impossible

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What if the biggest mistake we make about our potential is assuming we already know its limits? New York Times–bestselling author and one of the world’s leading experts on human performance, Steven Kotler has spent more than 30 years studying flow, peak performance, and what happens when people push beyond what they thought they were capable of. His conclusion: we consistently underestimate ourselves because capacity reveals itself in stages. You don’t get to see the next version of what’s possible until you’ve built the ability to reach it. In this conversation, Steven and Courtney unpack how flow expands performance, why identity often lags behind ability, and why the evidence of your own…