A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme
sport are redefining the limits of being human. 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?
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I devoured this book in a single seating!
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 | Review
by: Alan P.
A recommendation for all adventure ane action junkies, seeking a coded version to get to flow. The stories about atheletes are detailed and really get into the heads of how flow elevates success.
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