Csikszentmihalyi’s research suggests that flow is conducive to optimal experience . But it doesn’t tell us anything about whether it is conducive to optimal performance . So look for flow when you want to feel better, but not necessarily when you want to do better.
OKAY hear me out… I feel like you’re niche is kind of like tender chaos. You write like you’re trying to touch God through a breakfast burrito or something. Tbh seeing your writing style has helped me relax into my own weirdness / oddities more. When I see it work for you I get excited about how it could work for me.
If you can sustain your interest in what you're doing, you're an extremely fortunate person. ... And you can't lose your capacity for astonishment. It's a great loss. Because the world is a very astonishing place. The great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibliity for learning never disappears, we basically have to admit you're never... See more
Understood this way, “common sense” might better be called a “communal sense” to distinguish it from what usually comes to mind when most of us hear the phrase. Under these conditions, to know is to share a world. A world in this case is more than just the things out there. It is a community of interpretation.