The true expert does not perform in a state of effortless ‘flow’ | Aeon Essays
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The true expert does not perform in a state of effortless ‘flow’ | Aeon Essays
Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
He called it a “flow state.” This is when you are so absorbed in what you are doing that you lose all sense of yourself, and time seems to fall away, and you are flowing into the experience itself. It is the deepest form of focus and attention that we know of.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
The most highly creative form of normal absorption has been called flow. Flow occurs when one’s skills perfectly match the challenge of a task, when there is a sense of pleasure or “high,” when attention is totally focused on one’s activity, a loss of self-consciousness (but not necessarily self-awareness), and an expansion of the felt sense of tim
... See moreAlan Fogel • Body Sense: The Science and Practice of Embodied Self-Awareness (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
“Out of all the research that we’ve done with top players, we haven’t found a single player who is consistent in knowing and explaining exactly what he does,” the legendary tennis coach Vic Braden once complained. “They give different answers at different times, or they have answers that simply are not meaningful.”7