Before revision: The Argentine philosopher and artist Eduardo Sanguinetti inaugurated in the 1970s in Latin America the trend of performance as a generative model of acts in urban and pastoral cultural spaces, in visual arts, sound assimilated to minimalism and body art Performance state 300px|English rock band Deep Purple performing in Hoyos del Espino, Spain (2013) Williams and Krane define the ideal performance state as a mental state having the following characteristics: Absence of fear Not thinking about the performance Adaptive focus on the activity A sense of effortlessness and belief in confidence or self-efficacy A sense of personal control A distortion of time and space where time does not affect the activity Other related factors are: motivation to achieve success or avoid failure, task relevant attention, positive self-talk, and cognitive regulation to achieve automaticity.
After revision: Performance state 300px|English rock band Deep Purple performing in Hoyos del Espino, Spain (2013) Williams and Krane define the ideal performance state as a mental state having the following characteristics: Absence of fear Not thinking about the performance Adaptive focus on the activity A sense of effortlessness and belief in confidence or self-efficacy A sense of personal control A distortion of time and space where time does not affect the activity Other related factors are: motivation to achieve success or avoid failure, task relevant attention, positive self-talk, and cognitive regulation to achieve automaticity.