That's interesting, I was expecting left and right hemisphere rather than front and rear. My previous study led me to the right and left hand relying on different sides of the brain. With the right hand control going to the math logical side and the left hand control coming from the creative side.. the right hand being measured and the left hand. By feel.. Kinda like Grandma cooked with a pinch and a dash rather than a cup or teaspoon measured .
Been a long time since I have even looked at the areas of the brain and I'm not sold on these new ideas yet. I find it interesting and put it here as food for thought more than fact.
That stuff is dope! My older brother came home on leave from the army and came by the station about noon. "Do you get a lunch hour?" "I own half this business, I reckon I can take a lunch hour if I want to."
Fifteen minutes on the road each way and we bought a case or two of Schlitz malt. Put it in the freezer then had to drink it before it froze. Got back to the service station in just under an hour after finishing the beer. I was staring at the bricks on the wall. Dad told people I must be on dope, he had seen me drink and there was no way I got drunk that fast!(grin) A lot of impossible things happened with Rusty doing a little agitating. Out of sight IQ, well into the genius range but for the most part he just didn't give a crap!
It's impossible to force the zone.
That is the common belief. I have read it many times. It is wrong. For a few years I entered the zone every time I drove around in circles. I have told the story many times of using the starting buzzer to enter the zone shooting pistols. Set a record that world class shooters had been chasing for years. The longest I have been in the zone was hours one night shooting pool. I held a table 12-14 hours or a bit longer and subjectively it felt like less than three when in the zone.
The more often you enter the zone the easier it gets to do. Forcing the zone might not be the right word but you can certainly go into it at will. I think most would consider going into the zone at will as the same thing as forcing it.
My favorite authority on the zone said the step to going into the zone was narrow focus. Then the third level is the zone, no focus. I was going into the zone multiple times a week and I found it quite possible to skip over the narrow focus stage and just jump to the wide open stage and let far more information than normal flow in then sort what was useful.
I have been in the zone over a hundred times. Many of the people talking about it were and are clueless. I bought a book once, Finding Your Zone, Finding the Zone, something like that. The guy had a PhD, was a phycologist or similar, and a serious competitor. Seemed well qualified. I read the whole book only to learn he didn't know what the zone was! I watched a movie, The Baron and the Kid, about pool. The Baron, Johnny Cash, explained what the zone was. Not surprising, he was clueless.
There is nothing narrow or focused about the zone other than your ability to sort what is needed from all of the information coming in. Being in the zone the information from your senses is like water from a fire hose compared to a water fountain.
I started finding the zone almost twenty years before I read about it and had a name to attach to the condition.
I read recently that high level surgeons like heart and brain surgeons enter the zone every time they do surgery. If true, it would be interesting to know how they trigger it. Just picking up a scalpel may do it, I don't know.
The zone, an altered state, is real. As long as people don't even agree about what it is we aren't going to get far trying to discuss it. It may be possible to find the zone through martial arts or meditation, it would really disappoint me if just taking a drug could do it but it may be possible.
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