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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And it has location, place.
It's packed with place cells and grid cells.
Why?
We evolved as hunter-gatherers.
When you were in the wild and something emotionally charged happened, you've got to remember where you were when it happened.
That's survival.
So where did I get attacked by that tiger so I don't go back there?
Where was that ripe fruit tree so when it comes into season, I'm hungry, I can go there?
This is survival.
This is what the brain is designed to do.
Peak performance and peak performance aging is always getting our biology to work for us rather than against us.
Our biology is designed to remember when we have novel experiences in outdoor environments.
So that's what you want to use it for.
Action sports gives you that.
Now, I also say in the book that if action sports aren't your thing, you can duplicate a lot of this by simply hiking with a weight vest through natural environments.
It's really great.
And weight vests are really key.
better than a lot of other things because they amplify bone density.
So a lot, little known fact, your bones, it's like where you store all your minerals, all your nutrients, right, are stored in your bones and they're released into, so everything that drives the brain, calcium, for example, which is in everything the brain does, it's stored in the bones.
So as our bones become less dense over time, which happens,
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