With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.

With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.

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. Somehow, a generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible, not just raising the bar but often obliterating it altogether. And this brings up one final question: Where-if anywhere-do our actual limits lie?

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

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.

...Suddenly normal wasn't good enough.

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.