"Bestselling author and performance expert Steven Kotler breaks down the processes by which elite performers accomplish seemingly impossible goals and teaches us how we, too, can do what we thought was out of our reach, turning the art of impossible into possibility for all who want to up their game"-

Introduction: A formula for impossible -- Motivation. Motivation decoded ; The passion recipe ; The full intrinsic stack ; Goals ; Grit ; The habit of ferocity -- Learning. The ingredients of impossible ; Growth mindsets and truth filters ; The ROI on reading ; Five not-to-easy steps for learning almost anything ; The skill of skill ; Stronger ; The 80/20 of emotional intelligence ; The shortest path to superman -- Creativity. The creative advantage ; Hacking creativity ; Long-haul creativity ; The flow of creativity -- Flow. The decoder ring ; Flow science ; Flow triggers ; The flow cycle ; All together now -- Afterword.