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Majorjim_ksp t1_j7h384i wrote
Reply to ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
I have when model making, riding a motorcycle or precision rifle shooting. It’s a wonderful place to be.
TopRamenBinLaden t1_j7h2tf5 wrote
Reply to comment by thoughandtho in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
Yea video games and music are two areas where I have personally experienced flow state. Rythym games are super good for that. I have been in a similar state playing Beat Saber and Guitar Hero as well. I also get into that state when I am improvising on guitar. It is always a fascinating state, where you feel like your body just knows better than you do.
stayh1gh361 t1_j7h2k3c wrote
Reply to ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
Flow with the tao. Ez
Eruptflail t1_j7h2gny wrote
Reply to comment by FrankDrakman in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
The other thing is that flow states are very hard to achieve in competition against others or very unpredictable things. If you're a top athlete competing against top athletes, you're going to have a very hard time entering flow states because they're challenging you constantly. Even then, entering a flow state then may cause you to commit major errors because you're not using metacognition. You're only reacting.
FrozenDelta3 t1_j7h1hbc wrote
Reply to ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
Flow, complete mental fixation or absorption.
[deleted] t1_j7gxqxq wrote
Reply to comment by Psychobert in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
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Ma3vis t1_j7gupq4 wrote
Reply to comment by guitarist4hire in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
And how does "hyper-focus" and this concept of "flow" affect productivity?
Caring_Cactus t1_j7gumva wrote
Reply to comment by tumor_buddy in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
Self-esteem relates to one's confidence to evaluate and manage their emotional experiences in relation to the self, self-worth is what keeps self-esteem stable. Having high secure self-esteem would mean a person has a more congruent self-concept in recognizing what is within and outside their control, and when they narrow their attention of focus to what is within the moment they can then enter these optimal mental flow states.
Joe_Fart t1_j7gufc2 wrote
Reply to comment by SvetlanaButosky in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | February 06, 2023 by BernardJOrtcutt
It is not convincing and even though I cannot find any phil survey about this, I would say a brutal majority of philosopher would dismiss it independently on their moral theory preferences (virtue ethics, consenquentialsts, deontologists, other)
jamminjalepeno t1_j7gt8ki wrote
Reply to comment by Kayyam in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
I have poor diction.
Kayyam t1_j7gryaz wrote
Reply to comment by jamminjalepeno in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
"challenging" is the more accurate word here.
You need a task that is challenging without being beyond your skills and comprehension.
sqt246 t1_j7gr6kw wrote
Reply to comment by timbgray in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
First I’ve heard of wu Wei but effortless mastery is a cornerstone of Taoism
Saadiqfhs t1_j7gr6c2 wrote
Can you want someone to fit into a box and believe in love?
I look for people that fit my schedule, someone with the same work and social schedules, as well as life goals timelines. But isn’t love communication and willingness to change? By creating a strict criteria of what needs to happen for a relationship to work am I keeping myself the possibility of finding out what love truly can be?
[deleted] t1_j7gqwlt wrote
Reply to comment by proto3296 in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
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Fluffy_Salamanders t1_j7gqd6a wrote
Reply to comment by guitarist4hire in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
Close but different. Hyper focus is more like perseveration because of a lost ability to switch tasks and it’s a symptom of several disorders like ADHD
GrandStudio t1_j7gqcyg wrote
Reply to comment by Perplexed_Radish in Utopia, Heterotopia, and the End of History: Marx, Nietzsche, & Foucault | The Masters’ Game 5 by Perplexed_Radish
My pleasure. Good article. A little too much jargon for my taste, but fundamentally in the right spirit for sure.
tumor_buddy t1_j7gqcx6 wrote
Reply to comment by Caring_Cactus in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
How does it relate to self esteem?
Perplexed_Radish OP t1_j7goy6r wrote
Reply to comment by GrandStudio in Utopia, Heterotopia, and the End of History: Marx, Nietzsche, & Foucault | The Masters’ Game 5 by Perplexed_Radish
Nice! Thanks for reading.
Gondoulf t1_j7go4o9 wrote
Reply to comment by noonemustknowmysecre in What makes humans unique is not reducible to our brains or biology, but how we make sense of experience | Raymond Tallis by IAI_Admin
Here's the second phrase of the Wikipedia page you sent : "Currently the adaptive advantage of sexual reproduction is widely regarded as a major unsolved problem in biology". Please don't say it's "bollocks" when it's clearly not clear, and stop with the passive-agressive statements. Now that we know that question of sissiparity is not solved ; the philosophical question can take place. About the whales and the other argument, I was referring to that kurzgesagt video on cancer and whales ; where they do posit the screening system argument and the other which was "more cells, more cancer, but cancerous cells can also get cancer" but now that the research has been made clear on that recently, I understand my lack of knowledge in the whale's cancer departement.
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GrandStudio t1_j7gnmao wrote
Reply to Utopia, Heterotopia, and the End of History: Marx, Nietzsche, & Foucault | The Masters’ Game 5 by Perplexed_Radish
There is no end of history. Utopia is not a destination. The author is talking about transcending our scarcity mentality -- a state that is far closer than we realize -- and the recognition that we cannot compete and self maximize our way to peace and prosperity. We are, as David Deutsch has said, at the beginning of infinity in terms of human explanations and problem solving. A new story of collaboration and abundance that uses markets to allocate resources, builds on self-interest to sustain and continue progress, provides basic survival necessities, and frees all of humanity to follow their gifts and make their dent in the universe -- that is the infinite engine of human progress that we can and must build.
Psychobert t1_j7gn8ok wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
Asking without judgement at all, but why dangerous? When I’ve felt what I think is flow it’s always been associated with what could be a physically dangerous activity, but I’ve always felt completely in control of that one activity.
Psychobert t1_j7gm8lr wrote
Reply to comment by Count_Bloodcount_ in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
Was just thinking that. I actually bought “The Inner Game of Skiing” on my way to my first ever skiing holiday. Once I got the basics, the sense of flow as I linked turns was incredible. I’ve experienced the same paragliding and sailing, but never when in the office for some reason..
SvetlanaButosky t1_j7glo6j wrote
Reply to comment by Joe_Fart in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | February 06, 2023 by BernardJOrtcutt
That's the thing, they dont care about the numbers, they will say its not worth it and annihilation is the only moral thing to do, because as long as we cant 100% totally prevent suffering for all living things, then life is not justified.
They dont care about asymmetry, its the perpetual existence of suffering that they focus on, unless we could give them a guarantee that suffering will be eradicated for all living things in the next 10 years or something. lol
1% or 99% makes no difference to them because they want 0% suffering, if they cant get zero, then they will continue to advocate for total annihilation.
Is this philosophy convincing enough for most people's moral intuition and valuation of existence?
dudertheduder t1_j7h451v wrote
Reply to comment by jamminjalepeno in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin
Yeah its really easy to fully understand on a graph. X is your skill, Y is the difficulty... Too easy for you? No flow. Too hard for you? No flow....juuuuust right? Flow.