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There are so many who write, but don’t do. Not Steven Kotler—he is the antithesis of an “armchair expert,” a man who always lives what he writes, and in the case of Gnar Country, writes what he lives. In this refreshingly raw narrative, Kotler personally proves that aging is actually a gateway to exploring new levels of our performance potential—and shows us how to do it. Gnar Country gets you excited to grow older!

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RETIRED NAVY SEAL COMMANDER AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ATTRIBUTES: 25 HIDDEN DRIVERS OF OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE

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Introduction to Park Skiing

Three months into Steven Kotler’s Gnar Country park skiing experiment, he spent a day shooting video of his progress. Then he sent the video to SteepSteep (aka, Nick Riemer), a professional park skiing commentator with a very popular...

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Gnar Country Experiment

Gnar Country is the story of an unusual study in peak-performance aging—with only one participant. In order to figure out if these ideas work for everyone, the Flow Research Collective ran a larger study in the winter of 2022. We used principles...

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Peak Performance Primer

Gnar Country is a book about applying the tools of peak performance to the hard challenge of aging. If you’re new to the topic of peak performance and want more detail about flow science, we’ve got a series of tools that break down the basics.

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Enter the Gnar -Course

Enter the Gnar is the Flow Research Collective’s flagship course in peak performance aging. We took all the major principles in Gnar Country plus a decade of research and created a science-based step-by-step program...

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DECODE THE SECRETS OF PEAK PERFORMANCE AGING

Meet the elite performers who have changed the definition of what's possible in the second half of our lives.

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IF YOU WANT TO AIM HIGH, HERE'S THE FORMULA TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.

Bestselling author and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective, Steven Kotler, lays out a blueprint for extreme performance improvement.

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“Gnar Country is a tour-de-force! Startling discoveries about peak performance aging, deep insights into human psychology, and a wonderfully written, laugh-out-loud, page-turning adventure story—only Steven Kotler could dream up and pull off a book this ambitious, smart, and useful!”

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FOUNDER OF THE XPRIZE, CO-FOUNDER OF SINGULARITY UNIVERSITY, AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

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A PERSONAL NOTE
FROM STEVEN

The cool thing about Gnar Country? The reason you should read it? We tell ourselves to slow down in our later years, but we don’t have to. If you know what you’re doing, the second half of our lives is the perfect time to chase down our big dreams.

Welcome to GNAR COUNTRY— a playbook for peak performance aging.

Over the past decade, breakthroughs in a dozen different fields offer a radically new view of our later years. This research shows we can sustain peak performance much longer than anyone thought possible. Would this research work in the real world? I decided to find out.

In GNAR COUNTRY, I put these principles to the test on my own body. How? By teaching myself to park ski at age 53—which, for half-a-dozen different biological factors, is considered nearly impossible for anyone over the age of 35.

Here’s what I learned:

Aging is a mental event as much as a physical process, and a shift in mindset can add seven years to our lives.

Strength, stamina and all the other abilities we once believed declined over time, are now seen as use-it-or-lose-it skills. By training our bodies and brains for our later years, we can retain and improve our prowess far longer than suspected.

Beneficial brain changes occur in the second half of our lives, which—if properly cultivated—unlock whole new levels of intelligence, wisdom, creativity, and empathy.

Old dogs can indeed learn new tricks or, in other words, old humans are better at learning certain skills than their younger counterparts.

Far from being a time of loneliness, depression and cognitive decline, our later years have the potential to be wildly meaningful and fulfilling.

Part adventure story, part science experiment, part how-to guide, GNAR COUNTRY is an inspiring, actionable, and often hilarious invitation to transform living longer into living better.

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 world’s leading experts on human performance.

Steven is the author of eleven bestsellers (out of fourteen books), including The Art of Impossible, The Future is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, Bold, and Abundance. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, translated into over 50 languages, and has appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, TIME, and the Harvard Business Review.

Alongside his wife, author Joy Nicholson, he is also the co-founder of The Buddy Sue Hospice Home for Old Dogs, a canine elder care facility, and Rancho de Chihuahua, a dog rescue and sanctuary.

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