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Being In The Zone
One of my colleagues was talking about being "In The Zone" yesterday. He followed this by working until eight in the morning completely revolutionising our in-house software while I went on to flake out at 7pm. But that's beside the point.
Where does it come from? It can happen at work at college, in sport, in the bedroom, in a debate or in music, but it always has the same effect, it makes you unstoppable and infallible and it always seems to feel the same, powerful and somehow transcendent, like flying in a dream.
There's presumably some biochemical factor involved: Given that it seems to turn up more under pressure, I'd hazard it's something to do with adrenaline and possibly testosterone.
When have you been there? How did you get there? And do you happen to know the shortcut?
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"No one was behaving from very Buddhist motives. Then, thought Pigsy, he was hardly a Buddha, nor was he a monkey. Presently, he was a pig spirit changed into a little girl pretending to be a little boy to be offered to a water monster. It was all very simple to a pig spirit."
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