Yesterday I watched F1. I don’t drive cars, never have. But the way Sunny says that he is chasing that one experience. He’s not chasing a trophy. He’s chasing that moment or the flow state. The constant roar of the engine fall silent, his thoughts disappear entirely, and the world shrinks down to the one bubble of focus. In that zone, he isn’t just driving, he is flying.
This is what psychologists call flow, a term proposed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It’s that state where the activity itself becomes rewarding, where effort feels effortless, and time and self seem to disappear.
Flow differs for everyone, depending on the balance of skill and challenge. It’s not impossible to reach, but it requires repetitions, practice, laps gradually training the mind and body until skill meets challenge naturally.
Flow isn’t magic. It’s skill meeting challenge, over and over, lap after lap. You don’t wait for it. You train for it. When it clicks, you just do. That’s flying. That’s flow.
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