Stories from Steven Kotler’s students

When I apply the principles I learned in this course, I am able to bring myself in a state of full immersion, motivation and heightened mental sensitivity and stay focused on my tasks longer and deliver results... I learned that grit is not something you eat is something you become. I roll up my sleeves every day, take the tools I learned from the course and I build the cathedral of my dreams.

I rekindled a Love Affair with Fine Art Painting and completed a Donation Piece for Aids Life Cycle Los Angeles that I had been struggling on for months... Thanks to the program, many pieces have started to fall into place and the Bigger picture is becoming clearer.

Kotler is more than just a brilliant writer-he's the guy you want to have a transcendental conversation with.

The real game changer for me was taking action facing my biggest fears head-on... I decided at the very last minute to ditch my script and just speak from the heart. And while I still cringe looking back I know I've gotten over the most difficult hurdle... one of the most significant learnings for me on this quest, means that I can ultimately experience that sense of flow in areas I feel anxiety towards.

Working through the quest really taught me how to intrinsically motivate myself which will tremendously help me move towards my MTPs because my default setting was to lose excitement with time while accomplishing goals. I had ideas and saw a way towards them, but the quest helped me put everything together and showed which triggers to utilize to reach my potential ultimately.

In reflecting on the whole experience, I'm extremely appreciative of the effort I put into it, as it created the backdrop for what was to come... I was able to develop a multi-dimensional, personalized framework for high performance... Though precisely identifying how I will change humanity has not yet fully materialized, the evolution into a much higher performance, grittier and finely tuned version of myself definitely has.

I actually learnt that I had a latent purpose which I've now been able to set free too!... this course has also given me the courage to truly realize the value of the pursuit of my purposes both in personal ways and actively getting my MTP's out into the world.

I was not living up to my full potential... and I knew it... I've taken a bunch of courses, which were all great, but, what would bring it all together? The formula was eluding me... what should I do... what gets more out of life?... what lets me help more people?... The number of goals that I have not been able to accomplish the previous years was because I had been keeping them in a holding pattern of huge steps.

I can feel the changes happening in my life, and I know the next life chapter is just around the corner... I have this amazingly extra energy! I'm getting a lot more things done, and yet, I feel it's with less effort.

At the end, I manifested a new magazine, published 2 issues, and identified in a potent where ( and how) I choose to focus in order to make the difference I am called to make. I love my work, I love my life and it is an adventure worthy of who I am, and am becoming.

I felt utterly confused about what I am trying to create in life, what I am all about and even doubting that I know what I am passionate about.

I can work 7 days a week, if I rest actively and do total resets... I think it's the first time in my life, when I daily cross off all of the 6-8 tasks for the day... I think I perform 2-3 times better then before the quest.