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Ask HN: Skills that give you joy/flow
I have some skills/hobbies like music and boxing, and these things give me joy/flow. What are the skills that give you joy/flow? (flow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology))
- smk_ 5y agoI love this question. First and foremost, meditation. It definitely helps me be more present. Another skill that gives me joy is reading. I can concentratedly read for 2 hours, but after 2 hours I need to take a break. I can't think of any other activity that I can concentrate so long on. Ideally, I would become a scholar but I'm going into software engineering for now:)
- viginti_tres 5y agoHow do you meditate?
- ambivalents 5y agoBouldering, meditating, ping pong
- drakonka 5y agoReading, writing, coding (usually debugging, once I have a consistent and smooth repro process), lifting.
- billconan 5y agodrawing. Thank you for sharing the wiki link, I learned something. I like drawing, it let me forget about other things for hours. I use it as a therapy for anxiety.
- amerkhalid 5y agoSame here, drawing and painting is such relaxing activity for me. Much easier to do than meditation, at least, for me.
- amerkhalid 5y agoCoding, video games, listening to music, painting. And long time ago when I used to run, running.
- dokem 5y agoI've been painting some walls in my house recently. After getting over the short learning curve of making a mess everywhere I find it pretty therapeutic and meditative.
- floppy-disk 5y agoRefactoring legacy code.
- tekichan 5y agoCoding, solving math problems on paper (equations and stuff)
- dominotw 5y agocoding, skiing.
- mikewarot 5y agoMachining, making gears.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoUltimate frisbee is a "flow" kind of game.
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- starwind 5y agoListening to music. Flying an airplane. Doing a hard workout. Building a Lego set. Fixing something with my hands. Cooking (trying not to cut off any more finger tips).
- navyad 5y agorunning
- viginti_tres 5y agorunner's high is a real thing and it's such an ecstasy (I've never done real ecstasies)