Is There a Loss of Self Consciousness?

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What slips below the threshold of awareness is the concept of self. When one is in a flow episode, these questions simply do not come to mind. Im sohe says the typically a person can maintain emerged awareness with only short periods. These interruptions occur when questions flash through the actor's mind and are bad for their performance.

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?