What's So Beautiful About Scope Diving?

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A big flow activity for me is scoope diving. I imagine that there are people who might never get into flow states because they've never had the time to acquire the skills. But it really is the case that you need to put enough time into something to even get close to floe. And there are so many more things that i've given up on before getting, before being able to get thereso.

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?