Are You Having Severe Social Anxiety?

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i think this is some people, it's really unbearable to have this kind of constant doubt and questioning and running monologue in your head. i was talking to somebodyo severe social anxiety, and they were describing it as constantly questioning everything that they ere saying. But inter acting in a social environment, like, i'm comfortable just talking and not thinking about what i'm talkingThat's why we can do a podcast like this, ight?

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?