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The sensation Ammons is describing is the “paradox of control,” another of flow’s defining characteristics. The paradox is real power in places we should have none. It’s that sense of controlling the uncontrollable familiar to day traders and emergency-room surgeons, only here taken to its farthest extreme. What creates this feeling is a two-part contradiction. Part one: Flow is exceptionally pleasurable, but mostly in retrospect. “It is this absence of…emotion, of almost any kind of conscious awareness of one’s state, that is at the heart of flow,” writes University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin Seligman.
The Rise of Superman
Steven Kotler
What problem are we trying to solve here? What is our goal with Nutrition 3.0?
I think it boils down to the simple questions that we posited in chapter 10:
1. Are you undernourished, or overnourished?
2. Are you undermuscled, or adequately muscled?
3. Are you metabolically healthy or not?
When we have worked hard and succeed at something, we should be allowed to smell the roses. The key, in my opinion, is to recognize that the beauty of those roses lies in their transience. It is drifting away even as we inhale. We enjoy the win fully while taking a deep breath, then we exhale, note the lesson learned, and move on to the next adventure.
The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin
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