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Steven Kotler

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Steven Kotler has been a freelance writer since 1993. His articles have appeared in over 42 publications, including: The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Wired, Discover, Popular Science, Details, Outside, National Geographic and ESPN the Magazine. His December 2002 Moment Magazine story about private detective Steven Rambam, "The Last Nazi Hunter," won the Rockower Award for Best Profile.

He is the author of two books, the (1999) novel: The Angle Quickest For Flight, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller and won the 2000 William L. Crawford IAFA Fantasy Award, and the (2006) non-fiction work: West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origins of Belief which was a 2006 Pen West finalist. He also writes "The Playing Field," a blog about th...more

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Courage: Working our Way Towards Bravery

I've spent a bit of time recently thinking about courage. I'll be writing a number of posts on this topic over the next few months, but this is my initial offering and to get started the first thing you need to know is that courage is woefully under-studied.

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Books by Steven Kotler

Average rating: 3.89 · 643 ratings · 181 reviews · 10 distinct works

	West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origins of Belief 3.79 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life 3.85 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Angle Quickest for Flight 3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Small Furry Hope 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	A Small Furry Hope: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Steven Kotler, Peter Diamandis, Arthur Morey (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Steven Kotler, Peter Diamandis, Arthur Morey (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Steven Kotler, Peter Diamandis, Arthur Morey (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think by Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
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“When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.”
― Steven Kotler, A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life

tags: animal-cruelty , animal-rescuers , descartes , dogs

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“It was a silly time to try to make a living out of words, but it was a silly time in general.”
― Steven Kotler, A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life

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“In Lovelock's view the earth was a 'super-organism,' a cybernetic feedback system that 'seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.' At the suggestion of his neighbor, author and screenwriter William Goldman, he called the system Gaia after the ancient Greek Earth goddess.”
― Steven Kotler, A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life

tags: gaia

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