My favorite book on the subject is "Free Play : Improvisation in Life and Art" by Stephen Nachmanovitch. https://www.amazon.com/Free-Play-Improvisation-Life-Art

My favorite book on the subject is "Free Play : Improvisation in Life and Art" by Stephen Nachmanovitch. https://www.amazon.com/Free-Play-Improvisation-Life-Art/dp/0874776317 https://www.amazon.com/Free-Play-Improvisation-Life-Art/dp/0... His description of the necessary fight with the "inner critic" more or less lurking in everyone's mind - and especially in OCD/perfectionists - is really interesting and got to me much more than Flow (haven't read Deep Work tho).