Dave Evans

So I'm neither over-skilled and then I get bored or I'm neither under-skilled and then I get anxious.

Yeah, I'm right at my skill level.

So the situation is demanding the most of me.

And what we notice about – and that's fine.

We call that apex flow, which is where I'm really right on the ragged edge of my capability.

And the reason I can drop into flow in that situation is –

The circumstance, i.e.

the task.

It takes all of me.

So literally the way I put that is I have now delegated responsibility for my degree of engagement in life to the quality of the task.

I need to find some task that will so demand of me my attention that I finally become fully present.

Which means it's the task's job for me to be present, not my job.

Bingo.

So what I really wanted to learn how to do, we called simple flow, is I can choose to be fully attentive.

I've got to chop these damn onions to make the soup.

And then what I really get onto is the dinner when the people come over at 7 o'clock.

So it's 5.30 now.

I've got to get the soup going.

You know, multitask, put on a Chris Williamson, you know, YouTube while I'm listening, do four things to make the most of it.

I'm supposed to look, whoa, whoa, whoa.