What's the Difference Between Choosing Which Game to Play and What to Do?

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The full experience differs from awareness in everyday reality because it contains ordered rules which make an act. The self reappears again to negotiate between the conflicting definitions of what needs to be done. It's n there's no crying and baseball, this can be broadened so much. At the end of that section, says um.

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?