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What all of this adds up to is options. Certainly, risk is needed for flow, but if you don’t want to take physical risks, take mental risks. Take social risks. Emotional risks. Creative risks. Especially creative risks. The application of imagination—one very shorthand definition of creativity—is all about mental chance taking. And the risk is real. Loss of respect, loss of resources, loss of time—the consequences of betting on a bad idea can certainly threaten survival.
The Rise of Superman
Steven Kotler
When I was in school my parents and teachers always warned me, "You've got to study as hard as you can while you're in school.
Otherwise when you grow up you'll regret not having studied more when you were young." But after I left school I never thought that, not even once. For me it was more regret that I hadn't done more things I enjoyed doing. Being forced to do that kind of rote memorization, I felt, wasted my life. But maybe I'm an extreme case.
Novelist as a Vocation
Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel, and Ted Goossen
"Bob doesn't like to think about things that are unpleasant," the white-haired woman was explaining, "so he doesn't. That's all. He's just got incredible self-discipline.'
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Lawrence Wechsler
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