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There’s a concept called flow in pop psychology. It’s what happens when athletes achieve the singular focus required to achieve superhuman feats. It’s what happens when chess players drift away so completely into the world of knights and pawns that they can play a brilliant move without really knowing why.

It’s what happens when you become so much a part of what you are doing that the parts of you that are needed for the job at hand are imbued with all of the energy and focus you can muster, while the rest of your unneeded body and mind stand so silent that they seem to disappear.

We all have different gifts, and can enter this flow state at certain times. Certain people only hit this stride while creating art, or playing sports. Others hit this state while working on difficult math problems or while telling stories to a playful crowd of friends. Some people, like Martin Luther King, and like many other preachers before and after him, enter this flow state from behind the pulpit or the podium.

After watching Barack Obama’s speech, it’s clear he’s one of those people. His speech started off slowly and at times he felt cold, listing off his well rehearsed hopes. But he gathered his momentum with great skill, playing the crowd in an expert crescendo. And as he entered the last minutes of his time, with his supporters reaching an ever increasing frenzy, he hit his stride.

He found flow.

And that’s a magical thing. That’s a really magical thing. It’s the difference between craft and art.

I know people say there’s more to being president than speaking well. And they’re right. But he’s got good judgement, a good heart, and he’s spent a lot of years working to better government from without and within.

And those things, in a person who can truly speak to people, is about all I need in a president.


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