Flow Is a Unified Feeling Present When We Act With Total Involvement

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Flow denotes the holistic sensation present when we act with total involvement. It is a kind of feeling after which, when nastologicaly says, that was fun or that was enjoyable. We experience it as a unified flowing from one moment to the next. Thelliam tot doesn't interview people u he just quotes them at length in the same way that chickat mei does,. So let's talk about like, the different features of it. Rit, yes? Or just, like, les, want to read what he says? Flo denotes xt this is the first time he, like, he use the term rea. This is, this is the where he coins it

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?