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| Type | Article |
| Author | Big Think |
| Date | May 1, 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znwUCNrjpD4 |
| Note created | May 1, 2022 |
Flow is often described as a stateof kind of ‘effortless effort.‘We feel like we’re propelled through the activity.Everything else just seems to disappear.Time is gonna dilate, which is a fancy of sayingit’s gonna pass strangely.Five hours go by in like five minutes.
The challenge-skills balance is often calledthe “golden rule to flow.”And the idea here is pretty simple.We pay the most attention to the task at handwhen the challenge of that taskslightly exceeds our skillset.
Novelty produces dopamine. We see the same thing with unpredictability, complexity, the experience of awe.
We get that same dopamine from risk-taking.And this could be physical risks,emotional risks, social risks, intellectual risks,possibly spiritual risks.We get the dopamine not as a reward for taking the risk,which is what some people used to believe,but now we know it’s to kind of drive motivation.
The most basic human motivator is curiosity. One of the things we get from curiosity is focus for free. When we’re curious about something, we don’t have to struggle. We don’t have to burn a lot of calories trying to pay attention to it.