Use flow to build team performance beyond the sum of the parts (1)

# Achieving Peak Performance: The Balance of Process and Flow

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The process focuses on understanding the parts we need to assemble to reach a desired outcome. This would be enough if we could control all variables. But we can't. This is why we also need the flow state to fit fragments of the parts together in a different way. Thus, peak performance is both predictable and flow.

Unfortunately, we are drawn to the certainty of outcome. This leads us to invest all our time and energy into perfecting the process and we forget the flow state exists. Progress becomes a relentless cycle of repetition, anxiety about mistakes, and variables causing failure. Which is why it is crucial to dedicate time to the flow state.