Howis the Relationship Flow?

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Ike: I was trying to think, what would be a the kind of family interaction in which you weren't feeling flow. So now imagine all those things are going on in your familiar interaction,. Your your having all these what would pop you out tathat would bring your ego back into it that? Well, like tense, a kind of tense conflict. Like when relationships are going bad, you start to do a lot of the things that you started to do when so your skill level isn't matching the you know, like, you start over thinking things. Ike: Yes, i just think you could make a slightly broader model that captured both the social flow and and skilful

David and Tamler lose themselves in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s (pr. ‘chick sent me high’) classic paper on the concept of flow. We talk about the features of flow activities – loss of ego, the merging of your awareness with the activity, and autotelic (not what you think) enjoyment. What makes flow activities so rewarding? Do you need to develop skills over many years to experience them? Do easy and natural social interactions count as flow?

Plus as men of pure virtue, we call an audible and choose not to make fun of a recent paper (with a student as lead author). Instead we pilot a not fully formed idea: “Substack Starters." Now that the economy is tanking, do we have any heterodox beliefs that might lead to profitable Substacks?