Steven Kotler

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1,080 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 Jun

Steven Kotler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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A lot of the time in a lot of those discussions, we would talk about hiring.
Who are the ideal employees?
How do you find them?
What do you need for the 21st century?
And over and over again, thousands of times, I heard the same two things from CEOs, which was I need employees who are really intelligent and really creative and really innovative because the rate of change is really fast and I got to keep pace and stay ahead of it.
Otherwise, I don't have a company.
I don't have a business.
I can't do any of that.
Other thing I need is I need employees who are empathetic and wise, because if I don't have psychological safety, nobody can do their job.
If I don't have psychological safety, I don't have great team performance.
Without team performance, you can't be a company.
You can't do those things without empathy and wisdom.
Most importantly,
the mantra of 21st century business, and maybe we thank Jeff Bezos for this, but it's always been, it's customer-centered thinking, right?
And if you're not empathetic or you're not wise, nobody's thinking like a customer, right?
At all, at all.
So it turns out a well-trained 50-year-old, and well-trained is key, right?
There's a whole bunch, we have like,
You want those gateways of adult development.
I've turned about these.
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