Seeking flow is a trap - by Nick Chow - Musings

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The quixotic quest of effortless perfection

So this is actually a slightly different picture of water flowing when compared to that of my musings piece. Photo credit to Matt Hardy. Contrarian take: the concept of “flow” has recently become actively deleterious for my progress. The psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi described and coined the term "flow" in 1975 and published a best-selling book of the same title. Flow is the feeling of being "in the zone," when all your senses are on fire and you're operating at peak performance, when the passage of time seems to melt away. It's an alluring state, made even more so because most…

Seeking flow is a trap - by Nick Chow - Musings

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