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The Flow Cycle (Flow and Recovery)

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
 

Table of Contents

Key Takeaways

  1. The Flow Cycle
  1. Flow
  1. The Phenomenology of Flow (STER)
  1. The Non-Negotiables for Recovery
 

Exercise - Post Flow Visualization

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After the flow state, visualize what it was like
Dial up the somatic memory, how it felt, the sensory experience, the associated emotions
Watch as reentry becomes smoother
Your notes

Glossary

Selflessness: The sense of self disappears.
Timelessness: The sense of time gets distorted. Hours seem like minutes, or microseconds can be seen in vivid detail. David Eagleman, at Stanford, found that this happens due to a lower prefrontal cortex activity. As a result, your inner critic goes off, most of your fears are either in the past or in the future. Fear goes away. Anxiety drops. Risk- taking goes up. Since you are no longer doubting your ideas, creativity goes up. And we feel that great liberation, that freedom. We’re out of our own way.
Effortlessness: Intrinsic motivation goes through the roof in flow. It feels like effortless perfection.
Richness: You gain insight and information in vivid detail. You’re taking in more information per second. You’re processing it more quickly and processing it more completely. This means more pattern recognition, more lateral thinking, more salience, more attention to the present, more data per second.
 
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