Relationships Are a Great Example of How to Have a Good Relationship

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Lik: It's crucial that we forget certain things in order to have te conversations. Yum and i wonder, what we were just describing is being in unison with someone else. Yes a. We have podcast up. Byalin on this one, by yesn ther of these some quotes from the interviews that they conducted. An outstanding chess player says, the game is a struggle, and the concentration is like breathing. The roof could fall in, and if it missed you, you would be unaware of it. Or an expert rock climber, you are so involved in what you're doing, you aren't thinking of yourself as separate from the immediate activity. You don't see yourself

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?