I don’t think you embrace flow so much as flow embraces you, but the desire to create certainly can allow this to happen. I think every individual has the potential to achieve flow-levels of competence in a given skill, but few pursue it. I don’t know why this is, but I note that higher levels in any hierarchy have “greater depth and less span”, e.g. humans have a higher depth of consciousness than bacteria, but are far less numerous. Similarly, in most endeavors, there are more novices than those with mediocre skills, and more mediocre practitioners than skilled ones. Pyramids everywhere.

Secondly (or thirdly, counting the ? marks), is the desire or compulsion to create, to write, play, compose, practice or what have you, a catalyst for embracing flow? And is there an innate ‘need’ to achieve unconscious competence, in the Stephen Pinker sense (Pinker argues that language is an innate organ/faculty in all humans)?