creative overwhelm
The science of effortlessness: How to activate flow | Steven Kotler: Full Interview
youtu.beMotivation, Learning, Creativity, and Flow. flow is an optimized state of conciousness where we feel our best and perform our best. Motivation is what gets us into the game, learning is how we play, creativity is how we steer and get to those goals, and flow is how we amplify those results. What is flow? Optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best. “six core phenominalogical characteristics” was there complete concentration on the task at hand? was there a merger of action awareness? did self vanish? did time dilate? what we feel is a sense of control. the experience is autotelic. it’s so euphoric, so wonderful that we extraordinarily go farther than we thought we could. neurological/biological - markers in the brain and physiology. Flow is effortless. Dates back to 1870s. German work rausche - overflowing with joy.
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youtu.beAI can generate a thousand articles while I drink my morning coffee. But it can't tell me which ones matter. It can't feel the resonance of a perfect sentence or know why a particular image stops me in my tracks.
That's what I do now. I collect resonance. Not information - we're drowning in that - but the stuff that makes my soul hum at a different
... See more“The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Epiphany (From "Soul")
youtu.beFlow state