What if you could literally quintuple your productivity? What if you could take your motivation, creativity and learning to stratospheric levels? These answers and more lie in FLOW, an optimal state of consciousness where we feel and perform our best.

Palisades Tahoe Institute (SVI) presents one of the world's leading experts on human performance, author Steven Kotler, on Friday, February 20th at Olympic Village Lodge in Palisades Tahoe.

Kotler, a New York Times best-selling author of The Rise Of Superman, and Co-founder & Director of Research for the Flow Genome Project is one of the world's leading experts on ultimate human performance. 

The Rise of Superman was one of the most talked about books in 2014 and the first book in history to chart simultaneously in four different categories on national best-seller lists (sports, science, psychology and business) In it, Kotler decodes the science of flow, an optimal state of peak performance where the impossible becomes possible—with critical implications in business, education, technology, and society as a whole.

Flow states are now known to optimize performance, enhance creativity, drive innovation, accelerate learning and amplify memory.

Researchers now know that flow sits at the heart of almost every athletic championship; underpins most major scientific breakthroughs; and accounts for significant progress in the arts.  In business, its impact has been substantial.

So what is this mysterious state?  What is the science behind it?  How can we get more of it in our personal and professional lives? The answer may be simpler than we expect, and Steven Kotler is here to show us not only the why, but the how.

Drawing on over 15 years of research, including first-hand reporting with dozens of top action and adventure athletes. Flow is a transformation available to anyone, anywhere, provided that certain initial conditions are available.

Kotler’s other books have explored the intersection of human capabilities, technology and consciousness. Abundance breaks down four emerging forces that give humanity the potential to significantly raise global standards of living over the next 20 to 30 years.

This month, Kotler is releasing his new book BOLD: How to go big, create wealth and impact the world.

The presentation with Steven Kotler takes place on Friday, February 20, at 6:30 p.m. t the Olympic Village Lodge in Palisades Tahoe. A Q & A session will follow the presentation.  A panel of professional athletes such as J.T. Holmes and Dirk Collins will join Kotler.
Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. with a no-host bar reception. Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for students.  Children under nine years old and SVI members are always admitted free.