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Is There a Difference Between Flow and Effortful Mental State?
Sports psychology consultant Henrik Larsson says athletes have to be prepared to compete with effortful attention. If you can have almost like more gears, you can have this flow where you are a bit more relaxed and confident. But one of his findings was that the clutch is sometimes needed to get there. And my experience working with athletes too is that you're just way more flexible if you know more than one way to perform.