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Interesting perspective. The author's basic point is that you should, to quote the article, "Avoid Flow. Do What Does Not Come Easy". This is in the context of
by 0815test 7y ago
Interesting perspective. The author's basic point is that you should, to quote the article, "Avoid Flow. Do What Does Not Come Easy". This is in the context of playing piano, so it might be a pitfall there. In my experience though, "doing what does come easy" is a reasonably foolproof and enjoyable way to enter flow; but you can still maintain that state subsequently while meaningfully challenging yourself. Your mileage may vary!
- tdhoot 7y agoI think Malcolm Gladwell or maybe someone similar called this "deliberate practice". The idea is that you can't become an expert by just doing 10,000 hours of practice. The practice has to be pushing you forward for it to count.
- thanatropism 7y agoGoes back to Heidegger at least if you trust Hubert Dreyfus. Maybe more. Heidegger at its core is an "antiplatonism of lived experience". I really can't recommend enough reading two very different interpretations of him, namely "Tool-being" by Graham Harman and "Being-in-the-world" by Hubert Dreyfus. Books are cheap. Get these. Most Netflix shows are bad. Read these books instead for two or three weeks.