Competition is an easy way to get into flow.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance.

It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.

It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%-when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.