The Victory had become what Ernie did without doing it. There was a centre to all this activity; it was a still centre. It’s no wonder that we overlooked it. We overlooked it because there was nothing to see. It was the nothing that made it mystical.*
James Carse

Monotony is the enemy.
Novelty is the solution.**
Derek Sivers

When flow^ turns into something repititious,
When one’s ego-self becomes visible,
It may be time to try something
disrupting, awkward, uncomfortable,
Until a new centredness and effortlessness is entered.^^

*James Carse’s Breakfast At the Victory – The Victory was a Manhattan diner that revolved around the disabled WWII veteran and proprietor Ernie;
**Derek Sivers’ How To Live;
^Wu-wei is very similar to flow;
^^A 4% stretch should do it – this is the amount of unfamiliarity apparently necessary to evoke flow. This also sounds very much like the hero’s journey from the old status quo to the new, which in turn will become the old, and a new call to adventure is heard.