That’s why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.
Steven KotlerRead
When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion. Intrinsic motivation goes through the roof. Thus flow becomes an alternative path to mastery, sans the misery.
Interpretation
Engaging in our passions enables personal growth and fueled ambition.
This quote emphasizes that when we pursue our true passions, we not only improve ourselves but also become excited about the future and the possibilities that lie ahead. It highlights that intrinsic motivation is heightened during such pursuits, suggesting that finding flow in our activities can lead to mastery and fulfillment without the suffering often associated with hard work.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a conference about personal growth.
That’s why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.
All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.
As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.
The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.
Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.
My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
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