Most people are unimpressed by the fact that flow provides an optimal subjective experience, but their interest immediately perks up at any suggestion that it might improve performance. If it could be demonstrated that a fullback played harder if he was in flow, or that an engineer turned in a better product if he was in flow, then they would immediately embrace the concept and make a great deal of it. This, of course, would effectively destroy the autotelic nature of the experience.
– Trying Not to Try by Edward Slingerland
There is a way to solve the above mentioned conflict by learning