Is It a Recipe for a Happy Life?

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There's a way of just iam in a watch, like, 30 blond orders b o back. Im to forget about my problems. Ye. Well, that and this isn't that? No, it's not. And that sort of passivity is excluded in his definition of floe. skill and challenge and acting on the environment are central to the concept of floe - we did talk about shitty floe ad when we were talking with paul. But i don't think it's a recipe for, you know, cause i think chiknmahi heris is giving a recipe for a happy life," he said.

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?