Flaneur wrote:"Going for It" means being in a state of Flow.

From Wikipedia:

[Mihaly] Csikszentmihalyi identifies the following as accompanying an experience of flow:

1. Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernible and goals are attainable and align appropriately with one's skill set and abilities).

2. Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentration on a limited field (a person engaged in the activity will have the opportunity to focus and to delve deeply into it).

3. A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness, the merging of action and awareness.

4. Distorted sense of time, one's subjective experience of time is altered.

5. Direct and immediate feedback (successes and failures in the course of the activity are apparent, so that behavior can be adjusted as needed).

6. Balance between ability level and challenge (the activity is neither too easy nor too difficult).

7. A sense of personal control over the situation or activity.

8. The activity is intrinsically rewarding, so there is an effortlessness of action.

9. People become absorbed in their activity, and focus of awareness is narrowed down to the activity itself, action awareness merging(Csikszentmihalyi, 1975. p.72).

The members of Umphrey's McGee may experience this state as well, but these elements are part of what is captured in those Complete performances.

Ty Webb wrote:Brain-damaged people are 100% really, really into making little mountains out of their mashed potatoes. And no one's mashed potato mountains are quite like their mashed potato mountains. Their exuberance when they dig in their hands, gravy be damned, is invigorating in its childlike purity.

But they're still brain-damaged, and it's still a mound of white mush.

This thread is what happens when people listen to too much punk.