Steve, what you wrote about reacting/responding can be applied exactly to dancing tango argentino too, as this is 100% improvisation and communication with the partner. When you dance in reaction mode, you're nervous, tense, and thinking, thus you dance bad. In response mode, you switch off the brain, just let it happen and it feels wonderful.
Thank you for this post, I'll try to dance in response mode all the time
Steve, as long as you were writing about discipline, hard work and productivity, I didn't like you at all! (and your advice didn't work for me) But now I really enjoy reading your blog. I always find it very inspiring and I learn a lot. I feel peaceful and happy reading it. Feels like you are in a wonderful state of flow while writing.
And for me it's perfectly understandable english. Maybe because I am not a native speaker