Sublime

Selflessness, Timelessness, Effortlessness, and Richness, or STER for short.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is considered the godfather of flow psychology.16 In the years between 1970 and 1990, while first a professor in the University of Chicago psychology department and later its chairman, Csikszentmihalyi conducted a worldwide inquiry into flow and optimal performance. It was through this research that he determined that flow

Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the line, the bounds of the possible have been pushed further and faster than ever before in history. We’ve seen near-exponential growth in ultimate human performance, which is both hyperbolic paradox and considerable mystery.

“the individuals and organizations who went the farthest the fastest were always the ones tapping into passion and finding flow.”

Then parts of the prefrontal cortex begin shutting down.29 We experience the selflessness, timelessness, and effortlessness of transient hypofrontality. This quiets the “already know that, move along” voice of our inner critic and dampens the distractions of the past and future. All these changes knock out filters we normally apply to incoming