Is There a True Flow State?

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I'm not sure if i agree. I think that is a characteristic of a lot of floe states, and maybe some of the best and most reliable ones. But i think you get like minni flow from like wirdle and durdle and quirdle and ock turtle. You know, like those ok turtles sometimes where it's like everything's just coming to you. And so they've made it easy for us to use our skills and and abilities. Is like the first time you play a brand new game. O, like, it's but the whole worldl he did create something that that tapse an to something that we ar ave eat. That's

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?