The mind is focused when it is going forward in a straight line, he argues. The discipline is to put the task at the center. The pitcher’s personality isn’t at the center. His talent and anxiety aren’t at the center. The task is at the center. The master has the ability to self-distance from what he is doing. He’s able to be cool about the thing he feels most passionate about. If you do this long enough, you begin to understand your own strengths and limitations, and you develop your own individual method.
