I learned about the conception of Mental Flow from a TV program of introducing new books. This time, the TV presenter interpreted a new book called “Stealing fire”. The story of “Stealing fire” is originated from ancient Greek mythology concerning Prometheus. He stole the fire from Olympus and brought it back to earth. But I understood that the main point of this book is to introduce the conception of mental flow and present how it functions magically in American military special operators. The author likened mental flow to another fire stolen from Olympus.

Even though I haven’t read this book myself, I try to explain mental flow by my own understanding from TV show. I remembered that the biological teacher told us the most of the human brain to everyone has not been developed. The human brain is composed by thousands billion cells, and their functions are still mysterious for us. However, we realized our human consciousness is mostly produced by our brain, as complex as the structure of the brain, and it is usually difficult to be stopped and controlled. The so-called mental flow is a mental status, in which the brain only focuses on what someone is working on with no other distraction, and in which the one could also enjoy or be immersed in a satisfying feeling and the time is neglected. In simple words, we turn off all the others of our brain except one part to focus on what is going on, that is the status of mental flow. The status can optimize the organization of the special operators and shorten efficiently their learning time. To master a new foreign language could nearly take six weeks for them.