A few thoughts
When asked to describe peak performance moments, it seems most people struggle to find more than one or two examples. So are such moments really that rare, or do we just fail to recognize them? And how is it that some people able to create these moments more often than others? Not just Tiger Woods and Roger Federer, but the local champions at the tennis, golf or bowling leagues, or the salesperson
who regularly wins the awards?
One thing that distracts us from “getting in the zone” is the belief that there is always something more we must know in order to be “better”. Yet the folks who keep winning rarely know more than we do. However, they typically execute better than the rest of us on the same knowledge we possess. While we are busy searching out there for the solution disguised as “what we don’t know”, winners are busy doing the repetitions of what they already know. It’s these repetitions that create skill and consistent high performance time and again, not
some new, secret move.
Interesting point. Clearly the door to the zone is not encrusted with jewels, or ornate carvings. It is invisible, and those who buckle down and commit to the ordinary have a better chance of backing into it, than anyone who seeks to approach it headlong. A flow state is unlikely to be accessed from a high anxiety state, but from a calm, I’ve done this a thousand times, relax to autopilot frame of mind. Effectively the ‘Zone’ finds you and not the other way around. And what the exact mindset needs to be to attract the Zone is difficult question to to answer. Logic precicts that the mind may not be in exactly the same attitude each time the Zone comes calling. Be ready to accept it when it does, because it is an incredible place to be. Incredible.
Grade A stuff. I’m unuqsetioanbly in your debt.
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