Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

About Steven Kotler

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author an award-winning journalist and the executive director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the worlds leading experts on human performance. He is the author of eleven bestsellers (out of fourteen books total) including The Art of Impossible The Future Is Faster Than You Think Stealing Fire and The Rise of Superman. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes has been translated into more than fifty languages and has appeared in more than one hundred publications including the New York Times Magazine Wired the Atlantic Time and the Harvard Business Review. Steven is also the cohost of Flow Research Collective Radio a top ten iTunes science podcast. Whenever possible he can be found hurling himself down mountains at high speeds. Jamie Wheal is the author of the global bestseller Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley Navy SEALs and Maverick Scientists are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work. Wheal is an expert in peak performance and leadership specializing in neuroanthropologythe intersection of culture biology and psychology and the founder of the Flow Genome Project an international organization dedicated to the research and training of ultimate human performance. Wheal is a mountaineer whos guided the North Face of Mount Everest trained Navy Seals Olympians and RedBull extreme athletes and advised everyone from the U.S. Naval War College and Special Operations Command to the executives of major corporations including Google Goldman Sachs and Cisco among others. His work and ideas have been covered in The New York Times Financial Times Wired Entrepreneur Harvard Business Review Forbes INC and TEDx. Wheal lives in Austin TX.