Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

Steven Kotler, Expert in Flow State & Peak Performance at The Rewiring Your Brain World Summit

15 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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Steven Kotler explains peak performance aging: regularly doing challenging social and creative activities in novel outdoor settings. He breaks down the five physical capacities that decline with age—strength, stamina, balance, agility, flexibility—and recommends training all five, ideally through single activities like pickleball or skiing that hit them all at once.

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Here's peak performance aging in a single sentence. If you want to rock tu drop, you have to regularly engage in challenging social and creative activities that demand dynamic and I'll define that word in a second deliberate play and take place in novel outdoor environments. Dynamic is is code for all five categories of functional fitness, and activity is dynamic when it demands strength, stamina, balance, agility, and flexibility, which are the five major physical categories that diminish over time. So you want to train them all up, Right. And if you could find a single activity, say pickleball or skiing or something like that, where that does all five at once. Better, right? Easier, because then you don't have to train them separately.