![]() ![]() Your whole being is involved, and you’re using your skills to the utmost." Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. He described it as "being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. In his book Flow, first published in 1990, he introduced that word as a concept to the nonscientific world. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the world’s leading expert on peak performance in any activity. That’s their job every single time they cinch their harnesses tighter. But while flow is often hard to find, it’s essentially expected of professional race drivers. That’s because it’s not easy to perform past your peak day in and day out. That’s a bit like a McDonald’s hamburger-not bad, but not great, either. For most of us, doing slightly less than expected is our daily recipe. (No, make that gobs of fun, though you don’t usually realize that until it’s all over.)īeing in flow is not something most people intentionally try to trigger on a regular basis. You’re not thinking about the past or the future you’re in the moment, confident, immersed, absorbed in a task. It’s almost effortless-things just happen. ![]() You feel as though you have all the time in the world to do what you need to do. It’s when you perform at your peak-everything you’re capable of on your best day, plus that little something extra. It can lead to drinking the milk at Indy. Above, Pagenaud leading the pack at the start of the 103rd Indianapolis 500.ĭrivers will tell you that being in flow is beautiful. This article originally appeared in the August 2019 issue of Road & Track. If you saw this happen, maybe you wondered what was going on: Did Pagenaud magically become more talented? Was his car some cheaty secret weapon? Not a chance, in either case. His last win before that was 20 months prior. ![]() This May, Ind圜ar champion Simon Pagenaud won the pole at the Indy 500, plus the race itself, plus the road-course race held at the Speedway two weeks before the big event. ![]()
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