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I feel like this cost is not as big as some say. Surely it takes time to collect your thoughts after conversation, but in my experience that is like 1-5 minute
by metalrain 4y ago
I feel like this cost is not as big as some say.
Surely it takes time to collect your thoughts after conversation, but in my experience that is like 1-5 minutes. It is usually worth it.
I really think there should be more communication at work, not less.
- wolfium3 4y agoDepends on person to person. For me it's on the order of ~20-30 minutes.
- theshrike79 4y agoYou really should quit your day job and start selling courses on focus if you really can drop down to a flow state in under 5 minutes and on purpose.
- metalrain 4y agoI think you don't need to have deep flow state to make progress at work. For me I think flow state is more about how interested I am about the task than how much time I have. And frankly many tasks at work aren't that interesting so even if I have half of day uninterrupted time, I don't get into flow state.
- theshrike79 4y agoEntering a flow state is a combination of multiple things IMO. The amount of challenge needs to be challenging enough for your skill level, not too easy (boring) or not too hard (can't flow because you get stuck). And (at least for me) I need to have the knowledge that I can focus on the task and not be interrupted. If I have a meeting in 30 minutes, there's exactly zero chance I'll enter a flow state because I'm expecting the meeting to start. And if I accidentally enter flow, I either work past the meeting or my flow is interrupted by a calendar alarm. Interruptions during flow state are really damaging (for me) because I'm juggling a huge amount of context and data in my head that's not yet exported to any external medium. If I get interrupted a large-ish segment of that data will disappear and I need to spend time gathering it after the interruption has passed.