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

Those highlight moments forever seared in your memory: that too is group flow in action.

The great civil rights leader Howard Thurman once said, “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs most is more people who have come alive.

If we are hunting the highest version of ourselves, then we need to turn work into play and not the other way round. Unless we invert this equation, much of our capacity for intrinsic motivation starts to shut down. We lose touch with our passion and become less than what we could be and that feeling never really goes away.