The Purpose of the Flow

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The purpose of the flow is to keep on flowing, not looking for a peak or utopia, but staying in the flow. Flow is the balance between having skill and the right kind of challenge. If something is too far beyond your skill, the eago would keep popping in telling you, like, you got o what you have to do to improve. It's actually elegant. A mena really.

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?