Senna e o Fluxo


Lendo algumas citações de Ayrton Senna, achei notável a maneira como ele descreve, clinicamente, a sensação do Fluxo (Flow) descrita pelo psicólogo Mihály Csíkszentmihályi:

"..the last qualifying session. I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car. And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously.

I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension. It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down. I drove slowly back to the pits and I didn't want to go out any more that day.

It frightened me because I was well beyond my conscious understanding. It happens rarely but I keep these experiences very much alive inside me because it is something that is important for self-preservation." 1

Essa é a melhor definição de Fluxo que já vi até hoje.

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Você confere Csíkszentmihály falando sobe o Fluxo em http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html.

Pesquisando depois de pensar no tema, vi que alguém já havia feito essa observação sobre Senna e o Fluxo na Wikipedia. O mundo é grande e é difícil não haver convergências cognitivas (aconteceu outro dia aqui).

Acho que se fizessem uma pesquisa sobre qual é a maior tragédia compartilhada pela consciência coletiva brasileira, a morte de Senna venceria. Esse seria o meu voto.

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