And for flow junkies who get their fix through action sports, this has always been the dark secret. Ecstasis only arises when attention is fully focu… - Steven Kotler

In flow, we are so focused on the task at hand that everything else falls away. Action and awareness merge. Time flies. Self vanishes. Performance goes through the roof.

we decided to take Drucker’s advice and follow the money. First, we dubbed the amount of cash and coin people spend each year trying to get out of their heads the “Altered States Economy.”29 And we didn’t mean this metaphorically; we meant it literally. “Getting out of our heads

Well, for starters, the obvious: we all seem to agree genius begins with feats of mental greatness. The thinking needs to be novel, so the results need to be beyond what most can envision. As it takes courage to push past the confines of culture, the thinking must also be brave. Because an athlete’s canvas is nothing more than his body moving through space and time, then an act of genius must also be defined as an act of redefinition–redefining what is possible for the human body.