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And Tokyo, too, has its monolithic views—but it only has two of them: the Imperial Palace and the Diet Building. Otherwise, there are no views at all. Everywhere you look it is a chaos, but what a fascinating chaos it is. It is a mosaic city, a melange city. It has no center. It has no outside. It seems to lack even the structural supports we know from other cities.
A Lateral View
Donald Richie
Balance between ability level and challenge: The activity is neither too easy nor too difficult. A sense of personal control over the situation. The activity is intrinsically rewarding, so action is effortlessness. A lack of awareness of bodily needs. Absorption: narrowing of awareness down to the activity itself.
The Rise of Superman
Steven Kotler
Embodied perception supports action selection. When a pitch is more suited for my goal (e.g., an inside pitch for opposite field hitting), I perceive the affordance of “hit-ability”, which makes the ball look bigger and makes me more likely to select the action of swinging.
How We Learn to Move a Revolution in the Way We Coach Practice Sports Skills
Rob Gray
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