Impact Books: Stealing Fire by Jamie Wheal and Steven Kotler

[@fitmarcus]

Fascinating. Great review of what sounds like an amazing book. Thanks Tom for a great follow up on superb interviews with both Steven and Jamie.

[@TomBilyeu]

Glad you liked it! And yes, the book is fantastic.

[@anthonyanzini4201]

Im listening to this book right now and 2 hours in I am loving it.

[@Bonbob626]

Oh my gosh, I am just getting into this now....late I know. I'm an Occupational Therapist and did my MSc research on flow in 2015. And you are right Tom, professional pianists overwhelming state a feeling of 'self-forgetting' whilst being in the flow state. Extreme sports, psychedelics and meditation are very effective, but what can give you the more powerful experience is the addition of music especially if you are playing- as you become one with the instrument. It's amazing. I'm planning on researching this further at PhD level.

[@Mimi25291]

This is interesting because apart from with God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit in prayer time I have gotten a flow from orchestral music

[@shadowkaged]

Read it, and understood why you were so excited about it! Brilliant read. The booklist is awesome!

[@kcreinvestor2982]

Tom, thank you soo much for continuously putting out such great content. I am really inspired by your story, your quest to become the best version of yourself and you passion for helping others do the same. Another excellent book recommendation, I am about half way through it and finding it very interesting. I started a weird and winding personal development journey several years ago now and I relate very strongly with your ideas about "taking the red pill". Meditation was definitely a big piece of the "waking up from the fog" experience you describe in some of your content. I would like to come to an event at some point, shake your hand and thank you in person. Keep up the great work!

[@TomBilyeu]

I would love that, KC. We're actually in the middle of planning our first live event now. Will be sometime this summer. Stay tuned.

[@nootreeknow7356]

I really value the content that you (& your team) are generating. It's been so insightful and useful. I particularly like the way you can clarify certain ideas/points & put them to practical use in every day life ( very much like Oprah Winfrey). Thank you for all your efforts, very much appreciated.

[@davidfong7848]

Great content. I wish you could go back a couple decades and interview Ram Dass (pre-stroke) or Terrance McKenna who were the western precursors to the findings in this book. I love that Wheal and Kotler have included empirical evidence thereby making, what some would call a spiritual experience, more digestible to the western world because we have a lot of catching up to do. McKenna used to say that psychedelics dissolved boundaries in the way that you spoke of with those Buddhist monks, which is evidence that there are many paths to the same end. Anyways, thank you for taking us with you on your journey to truth.

[@TomBilyeu]

Truly my pleasure to bring you along as I discover. I'm not familiar with Ram Dass, but have read about Terrance McKenna and I would have loved to have interviewed him! I too am said I don't (yet) know how to time travel. ;-)

[@davidfong7848]

Tom Bilyeu That really surprises me that you don't know who Ram Dass is. He was a Harvard professor thrown out of William James hall because he started to use psychedelics to explore his own consciousness which eventually brought him to India where he pretty much became a yogi under the tutelage of Majaraji.

[@RP_511]

Tom Bilyeu you can always interview his brother Dennis. I think he would be a great gateway to the micro dosing of psychedelics 🤙🏼

[@sacas9]

You hit the spot here this format is prefect Tom! (you should have a link (or side (automated) business) to deliver this kinda non fiction books that are the kind of culture you want to share. Great work Tom!

[@TomBilyeu]

Glad you like the new format!

[@PinkSallyProductions]

Hi Tom. Congrats to you, Lisa and Agent Smith, this new format is great. I thought previous format was ok but this feels way more like we're in the room with you. Your enthusiasm is always inspiring but on this review it has made me want to buy the book! Mind you, I am in awe of Jamie Wheal since your interview with him so maybe my purchase was inevitable, you are certainly the catalyst though heh. . . 🌹

[@AshSchultzArt]

i actually ended up getting this book on audible. really fascinating. that interview with jamie wheal really hooked me on the idea of trying to achieve flow states when working

[@TomBilyeu]

You will be richly rewarded if you can pull it off!

[@dislascope5666]

Hey Tom! So I was watching this today and this is so interesting. I’m on minute 22:01 when you’re talking about the parts in the brain that shut off when In deep prayer and meditation. The part that influence navigation and a sense of being separation and distinction. So this means, that before that part of our brain was develop, there was no concept of separation. Everything was one. I believe it’s definitely a higher trough that everything is laced and interlaced together!! Love your content brother!

[@LD-wf2yt]

The fear of death is a big blocker. When you find yourself in a high pressure situation try to mentally accept death and your ability to see, focus and act will suddenly switch to something - outworldly.

[@forforkssake30]

i loved how Tom was SO into all those certain lines/ideas and nearly braingasmed everytime he talked about them! :D

[@TomBilyeu]

Hahahaha! "braingasm" - love it!

[@williamcordero6424]

I love this new format! The one improvement I would suggest for this and the Startup Theory is to get rid of the headphones, I find them distracting for do e reason. Keep up the great work IT! Team.

[@TomBilyeu]

Thank you for the feedback!

[@xosiris95]

New format! Cool! I'll watch this latter, but I'm interested!

[@TomBilyeu]

Let me know what you think!

[@xosiris95]

Hey Tom, here is the deal buddy, I loved how in depth the book review was, I've never seen such a detailed review here on youtube, but man, did you leave me curious when you said that you still had a lot of cool notes that you wrote about the book and stared skipping all of them! MAN I wanted to know what else was in your mind! You can't just leave us hanging like that bud!! hahahaha. BUT, I'll tell you this one thing. The way you are handling your social media gives me such a profound sense of intimacy, it's crazy. like in one of your Q&A videos, you mentioned that someone would get a 10 minutes skype call with you. And when I heard that I instanty started asking myself, what would I ask you? and I decided in my mind that the most effective way to use 10 minutes of your time, is not to ask anything from you anymore. who you are is very obvious to us if we follow you close enough. Instead I understood that the most optimal way is to make YOU come into my world so we can have kind of a back and forth thing going on. You gave me information on you on your videos and to make it a conversation it is just fair that I give you some information about myself! What I'm trying to say is that no matter how you look at it, this book review that you openly used your notes creates such a feeling of connection that I can't describe! I've finished reading The Rise of Super Man yesterday and I felt like you were one of my friends discussing the issue with me! CRAZY feels like we just got out of highschool classes and we were forming a study group and you were not a billionare. You were one of us. Now this, my friend, as Brenee Brown would say, is vulnerability Love your work Tom, Gabriel

[@sandrajanekays357]

I like what you are talking about, but I really don't like using any kind of drugs. I worked for a while in Detox at the VAMC in Salt Lake & I found it very rewarding to talk with some of those patients about drug & alcohol use, or should I say misuse.

[@lilamnbdh967]

Thank you Tom , you’re doing such a good job!! Very interesting book.!

[@davidcapps960]

So mice that were shocked then given almonds had generational memories passed on. There has been times when I micro dosed magic mushrooms and vomited violently. Afterwards I had a profound experience akin to stealing fire in the ancient myths. Can such an experience be passed on through my genetics? I would love for my children to have access to the expansion of mind I feel now. Tom your work impacts me.

[@TomBilyeu]

Now you're asking an important question... I have no idea. Generational echoes scare me a bit, if I'm honest. I like to think we're born blank slates.

[@GhinZun]

Very interesting!!! The microdosis... it reminds me of a book I real a lot of years ago about how some of the greatest thinkers and writters as aldoux huxley experimented with drogs, and his book "a happy world", is basicly a microdosed society of happy people. Great new format of reviewing books 👍

[@josiegifford6636]

Loved this, my first time watching a book review.

[@rolandokiratsous7085]

just received mine. so excited to read...

[@TomBilyeu]

Awesome!

[@rimistanbouli6610]

Love this series

[@danbrofitness4543]

I can't wait to read this book! It's next on my list

[@marzbarz5293]

powerful presentation.

[@TomBilyeu]

Glad you liked it!

[@TheZGALa]

Sidenote--'poor Woody Allen.' :)

[@TomBilyeu]

Haha! ;-)

[@milliebucks6050]

Im so gonna read this book ! Thanks for sharing

[@brain7559]

Man I love this, Might Become my favorite book

[@arande3]

You're right. I like this style way better. More intimate.

[@TomBilyeu]

Awesome! Much respect to Lisa and Agent Smith. They're the ones that came up with it!

[@madelineaudurier168]

Love this ♥️

[@vlad.nicula]

I bought the book by minute 15 of this review :)

[@TomBilyeu]

Awesome! Hope you like it as much as I did!

[@icqproductions5246]

Thank you. Good stuff.

[@mohammadhuzaifa7]

8:23 It Is A Rush Of Neurochemestry - English With Tom

[@nimuyreemu3723]

I have the book...I feel so much urge now to read it..

[@savinomarketing]

Yep.. you convinced me, I'm in.

[@TomBilyeu]

Boom! Enjoy!

[@RobHowzeLife]

Man this is deep!

[@TomBilyeu]

Definitely trying to get beyond the surface.

[@DrSRanjanMBBSAcupuncturist]

Subconscious is much faster & vaster. 19:53 Meditation => Oneness with God | siginifcant deactivation of right parietal lobe, which is for navigating. Not able to feel, where your body ends and other begins.

[@danisugimoto7458]

Hey Tom. Love your show, Keep it up. I think that you would love to read reality transurfing I-V (thank me later)

[@TomBilyeu]

Interesting... I've never heard of it. Will have to check it out.

[@TheZGALa]

OMG--science is catching up with 'real life'! JK, sorta. This is all stuff I learned thru experimenting with lsd, mushrooms, weed and other herbs, dancing, singing, fighting, sculpting, writing, playing music, and snowboarding. Group flow is very interesting to me. Snowboarding and music and dancing are areas I feel that the most, and definitely often (though not always--I do enjoy 'sobriety' at times too!) enhanced with a nice combination of microdose of shrooms, a shot of vodka and some good weed.

[@TheZGALa]

Yay!!! This makes me very happy! Thank you for sharing. :)

[@TomBilyeu]

You are far braver than I. ;-)

[@samratspeaks]

Why did you stop doing this? :(

[@luiscader]

Im shocked of what is happening in the world this advances and discoveries are too much!! I feel Im on the edge of science and the unknown

[@bastianrivero]

damn you look tired bro, sleep once in a while :D nice work!

[@TomBilyeu]

Sadly, that's just my face! Haha. I could sleep for a month and I'd look the same. ;-)

[@01REDEYEDDEVIL]

Basically, TURN OFF YOUR TV’s……nowadays it’s more like, TURN OFF YOUR INTERNET/COMPUTERS!!!!

[@MrAhoelzel]

You have not eaten shrooms yet? Come on man!

[@MrAhoelzel]

Man, you can't describe these things if you have not tripped. Your words fall to deaf ears until you do. It's obvious.

[@raginald7mars408]

Really Really Really ... Real? Really? Or not so real...

[@taoon8327]

Extreme sports... Because it's on ESPN and psychedelics are not 😂😂😂 omg