Career Coach - 5. The Paradox of Control

"...the flow experience is typically described as involving a sense of control- or, more precisely, as lacking the sense of worry about losing control that is typical in many situations of normal life. "...what people enjoy is not the sense of being in control, but the sense of exercising control in difficult situations. It is not possible to experience a feeling of control unless one is willing to give up the safety of protective routines."