National Bestseller
CNBC and Strategy + Business Best Business Book of the Year
It’s the biggest revolution you’ve never heard of, and it’s hiding in plain sight. Over the past decade, Silicon Valley executives like Eric Schmidt and Elon Musk, Special Operators like the Navy SEALs and the Green Berets, and maverick scientists like Sasha Shulgin and Amy Cuddy have turned everything we thought we knew about high performance upside down. Instead of grit, better habits, or 10,000 hours, these trailblazers have found a surprising short cut. They're harnessing rare and controversial states of consciousness to solve critical challenges and outperform the competition. 
New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler and high performance expert Jamie Wheal spent four years investigating the leading edges of this revolution—from the home of SEAL Team Six to the Googleplex, the Burning Man festival, Richard Branson’s Necker Island, Red Bull’s training center, Nike’s innovation team, and the United Nations’ Headquarters. And what they learned was stunning: In their own ways, with differing languages, techniques, and applications, every one of these groups has been quietly seeking the same thing: the boost in information and inspiration that altered states provide. 
Today, this revolution is spreading to the mainstream, fueling a trillion dollar underground economy and forcing us to rethink how we can all lead richer, more productive, more satisfying lives. Driven by four accelerating forces—psychology, neurobiology, technology and pharmacology—we are gaining access to and insights about some of the most contested and misunderstood terrain in history. Stealing Fire is a provocative examination of what’s actually possible; a guidebook for anyone who wants to radically upgrade their life.

Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

Wheal, Jamie

Kotler; Steven

Reference

Dey Street Books

Business & Money

Business Culture

"A highly personal, richly informed and culturally wide-ranging meditation on the loss of meaning in our times and on pathways to rediscovering it." --Gabor Maté, MD,&nbsp;author of&nbsp;In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction A&nbsp;neuroanthropologist&nbsp;maps out a revolutionary new practice--Hedonic Engineering--that combines the best of neuroscience and optimal psychology. It's an intensive program of breathing, movement, and sexuality that mends trauma, heightens inspiration and tightens connections--helping us wake up, grow up, and show up for a world that needs us all. This is a book about a big idea. And the idea is this: Slowly over the past few decades, and now suddenly, all at once, we're suffering from a collapse in Meaning. Fundamentalism and nihilism are filling that vacuum, with consequences that affect us all. In a world that needs us at our best, diseases of despair, tribalism, and disaster fatigue are leaving us at our worst. It's vital that we regain control of the stories we're telling because they are shaping the future we're creating. To do that, we have to remember our deepest inspiration, heal our pain and apathy, and connect to each other like never before. If we can do that, we've got a shot at solving the big problems we face. And if we can't&nbsp; Well, the dustbin of history has swallowed civilizations older and fancier than ours.&nbsp; This book is divided into three parts. The first,&nbsp;Choose Your Own Apocalypse, takes a look at our current Meaning Crisis--where we are today, why it's so hard to make sense of the world, what might be coming next, and what to do about it. It also makes a case that many of our efforts to cope, whether anxiety and denial, or tribalism and identity politics, are likely making things worse. The middle section,&nbsp;The Alchemist Cookbook,&nbsp; applies the creative firm IDEO's design thinking to the Meaning Crisis. This is where the book gets hands on--taking a look at the strongest evolutionary drivers that can bring about inspiration, healing, and connection. From breathing, to movement, sexuality, music, and substances--these are the everyday tools to help us wake up, grow up, and show up. AKA--how to blow yourself sky high with household materials. And the best part They're accessible, by anyone anywhere, no middleman required. Transcendence democratized. The final third of the book,&nbsp;Ethical Cult Building, focuses on the tricky nature of putting these kinds of experiences into gear and into culture--because, anytime in the past when we've figured out combinations of peak states and deep healing, we've almost always ended up with problematic culty communities. Playing with fire has left a lot of people burned. This section lays out a roadmap for sparking a thousand fires around the world--each one unique and tailored to the needs and values of its participants. Think of it as an open-source toolkit for building ethical culture. In&nbsp;Recapture the Rapture, we're taking radical research out of the extremes and applying it to the mainstream--to the broader social problem of healing, believing, and belonging. It's providing answers to the questions we face: how to replace blind faith with direct experience, how to move from broken to whole, and how to cure isolation with connection. Said even more plainly, it shows us how to revitalize our bodies, boost our creativity, rekindle our relationships, and answer once and for all the questions of why we are here and what do we do&nbsp;now &nbsp;In a world that needs the best of us from the rest of us, this is a book that shows us how to get it done.&nbsp;

Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

Harper

[Read by Fred Sanders] The author of the bestselling Bold and The Rise of Superman explores 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.

Religion & Spirituality

HarperAudio

Stealing Fire: Spitzenleistungen aus dem Labor: Das Geheimnis von Silicon Valley, Navy Seals und vielen mehr

Plassen Verlag

Descubre cómo los estados alterados de conciencia pueden mejorar tu vida. En este libro rompedor, Steven Kotler, autor reconocido en la lista de superventas de The New York Times, y Jamie Wheal, experto de prestigio mundial en rendimiento máximo y liderazgo, se basan en investigaciones de vanguardia y reportajes de primera mano para explorar qué es lo hace que algunas personas tengan un desempeño y un rendimiento excepcionales y qué podemos aprender de ellas. ¿Por qué acuden más figuras del mundo empresarial y altos ejecutivos a retiros de meditación ahora que en la década de 1970? ¿Puede una droga como el éxtasis ser utilizada para tratar a pacientes con traumas? Resulta que los estados alterados pueden agudizar nuestra capacidad de tomar decisiones y resolver problemas, liberar nuestra creatividad e impulsar la colaboración creativa. 
Tendiendo un puente entre los extremos y la sociedad en general, Robar el fuego explica cómo la principal fuerza de élite de la Armada estadounidense, los trabajadores de Google y los multimillonarios de Silicon Valley están utilizando los estados alterados (la mayoría no son inducidos por drogas) para promover de manera radical el rendimiento y estimular la felicidad. 
En esencia, este es un libro sobre posibilidades profundas; sobre lo que es realmente posible para nuestra especie; y sobre dónde están nuestros límites (en caso de que estén en alguna parte).

Robar el fuego (Spanish Edition)

Medical Books

Kotler, Steve

Psychology

Editorial Sirio

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