Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and the founder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective, the world's leading neuroscience-based peak performance research and training organization. The author of fifteen books--including The Art of Impossible, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, and Gnar Country--his work has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations, been translated into more than eighty languages, and appeared in over one hundred publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Wired, Time, and Harvard Business Review.