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can learn to improve the sophistication of how you think about time. Much of the conceptual apparatus around decision-making in use today cannot represent the sorts of timing ideas we’ve discussed. This is primarily because popular decision-making models rely on what you might call point logic: the idea that a decision is a point, a fork in a temporal road, so to speak. This limits our reasoning about decisions mostly to before-after frames.
While these phenomena are included in most standard descriptions of the zone, they are also the reason William James described the state as “mystical” and Maslow borrowed quasi-Buddhist terms like self-actualization for its long-term effects. Not surprisingly, trying to understand how the brain produces this peculiarity has been a longtime goal of flow researchers. Unfortunately, until recently, there have been issues.
The Rise of Superman
Steven Kotler
The other important similarity is that each game requires two complementary skill sets: the ability to evaluate potential partners and the ability to attract good partners. In sex, the partners we’re looking for are mates. In social status, we’re looking for friends and associates. And in politics, we’re looking for allies, people to team up with.
The Elephant in the Brain
Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
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