Getting lost in the pursuit

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That feeling when you are engaged in an activity.

Fully immersed.

No distractions.

Nothing can pull you away from the moment.

You are giving all your attention to the actions at hand.

Noticing everything.

Giving every ounce of energy to this immediate task.

You lose your “self” in it.

The satisfaction of this.

Learning.

Adventure.

To be free of one’s day-by-day mind stuff.

The challenge calls you away. To dedicate all your faculties to the pursuit.

This is what makes training such a powerful way to channel your energies.

To put all your potential into a hard, physical job. One that is tangible. And requires all levels of your being to succeed.

Some folks say people who work out all the time are obsessed. They are trying to escape. Run away from their problems etc..

In some ways this is valid.

And truth be told, everyone wants a way out. An escape.

There are so many ways to run away. Many of them are of the “anti-health” variety.

But one subtle difference in losing oneself to a pursuit such as training, art or mastery of some kind… there is no hangover. There is no sickness or nausea or other destructive outcome that comes from it.

A subtle difference.

But potentially life-changing.

Losing oneself in the pursuit of mastery. In training. With zero concern how the world may view it.

Powerful.

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