How to Achieve Intensity Without Stress

When you're stressed out, it seems like the only way to increase intensity is to speed up even faster and to rush yourself. In Latin, there's a saying, festina lente, which means make haste slowly. When you want to be very intense, you become more deliberate. So slowing down to increase how deliberate can lead you directly into flow provided that there's enough of a challenge for you to work on.