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Curious to hear what book you are referring to, and what physical skill you learned that carried over into your career
by aaronm14 9y ago
Curious to hear what book you are referring to, and what physical skill you learned that carried over into your career
- motohagiography 9y agoThanks! Specifically didn't mention them because the effect of activities themselves is the point. If you haven't read a book on topic-x, the first one is going to change your perspective pretty radically and put you in that iterative and open learning mode. The activity (see post history for clues;)) was about sublimating that same ego/anxiety by accepting guidance and instruction from a great teacher who had mastered something. Super productive and high achieving people tend to have absorbing hobbies for (I think) related reasons. It's not that there is a "trick," it's that there is a general effect that all those tricks produce, which is that state of creative flow that results from removing our negative self-conscious reactions. IMHO, for me that included silencing self-critical mental filters by overloading them with stimuli from things like constructive authority, physical exhaustion, and awe and excitement at a new body of knowledge. My thinking is that the things people do as flow and inspiration hacks roll up into this overall process.