Albert Einstein: the Adrenaline Junkie

There are an increasing number of triggers that will significantly increase your chances of getting into the flow. Risk is one of the most well-known, and probably the most obvious, because of our inherent fascination with the pursuit of excellence.

Uncertainty about the consequences of an activity constitutes risk. This uncertainty can be exacerbated by the additional triggers of a deeply embodied activity with a high level of novelty, complexity, and unpredictability in the environment.

Albert Einstein was a well-known physicist, social risk-taker, and outspoken physicist. However, tagging the risk outside of his field may be unfamiliar to you.

Before I get into the meat of this message, here are a couple of interesting facts.

• Einstein enjoyed sailing.
• Einstein had trouble swimming.

This is not a cocktail that is commonly mixed, but could it be the key to unlocking deep creative flow?

During his summer vacation at Nassau Point, the adrenaline-junky physicist would love to sail. When it came to the residents, who spent the majority of the summer rescuing the scientist from troubled waters, this love was not reciprocated.

According to gossip from the Point, Einstein would occasionally enjoy instilling fear in unsuspecting colleagues by sailing them directly into a storm for his own amusement.

Looking deeper into the heart of creativity, where you create something out of nothing and then place it in front of a potential public firing squad, Putting your reputation, money, and time spent on creating something on the line is not for the faint of heart.

Fear of “what people will think” suffocates creativity. However, in order to overcome social resistance, we must take the risk of not knowing how it will be received. And the harsh reality is that 90% of your work will not be well received.

Creatives fail, and the best of them fail a lot.

When it comes to social resistance, good creatives have the mindset of a samurai warrior. Consistently willing to risk everything for creative expression.

The harsh reality is that if you want to improve, you must put in the effort. Ira Glass, an American radio personality, refers to this process as “filling the gap.” You must put in the effort so that your skills and preferences match. There will be many ebbs and flows along the way, and your response to social resistance will put your resilience to the test. On this journey, the samurai’s weapons of choice will be grit, courage, and determination.

Your conscious or unconscious extrinsic motivations will be suffocated by the threat of unpredictable environmental retorts, forcing you to flex your compulsory creative muscles. In some ways, the risk will motivate you to find a solution. If you’re willing to take that chance.

So, in order to survive your colossal pursuit of a life of creative expression, you must find happiness in the pocket of risk by becoming an adrenaline junky inside and outside of your field, just like Einstein.

This is referred to as having an autotelic personality in flow physiology. “Auto” refers to oneself, and “telos” refers to a goal.

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