sympathetic and parasympathetic are not opposites Inhale Exhale are not opposites - they are all flow

The vast majority of people browsing social media streams via the web are doing just this: spending a lot of time browsing junk content.

While much of this "junk content" is for entertainment or some means of mental and/or emotional health, at root it becomes the opiate of the masses.

Somewhere, Steven Kotler compares a flow state to satori. From skimming this wiki page, I don't see it. He did some research into mystical traditions and came to this conclusion. He describes flow as a glimmer of awakening which he distinguishes from (stages of) enlightenment. Satori is obviously awakening and is clearly linked to some stage of enlightenment.

Source? Link it here.

The DIY way I organise my life by [[struthless]]

shiny new thing syndrome [2:01]

meh...

Put tracks between each pair of songs to highlight the journey with a natural flow.

About four landmarks for an hour long playlist.

for - definition - constructal law - Adrian Bejan - to - The constructal law of design in evolution and nature

to - The constructal law of design in evolution and nature - https://hyp.is/ZRIXfo76Ee-5yZdY2quRaQ/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2871904/ - youtube explainer video - constructal theory - flow - Adrian Bejan - https://hyp.is/R7V4Yo79Ee-52gO6UYAaYQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgEBTPee9ZM

Books are about large blocks of uninterrupted time...

( ~13:00)

Perhaps. I don't think so. With a Zettelkasten I believe you can write without 4-hour deep work blocks... However, maybe he is right... I haven't really written yet so I can't be certain.

"You can see I have quite a lot notes I have to make."

This is a difference in mentality between Ryan Holiday and me (as well as Muhammed Ali Kilic)

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Our mentality (inspired by GTD and other standard productivity stuff, mostly Flow) is to avoid creating homework.

You don't HAVE to make notes on something. You select what you deem valuable and are interested in working with at the moment.

Because of the marginal gains effect I wrote about earlier, it doesn't matter if you don't make a lot of notes. Besides, you can always return later--especially with a proper bib card and potentially a custom index/ToC for a book.

A Zettelkasten is the lazy man's path to excellence.

(this is an ironic statement of mine because a Zettelkasten asks a lot of work over time. However, it doesn't have to be on a day to day basis. Plus you work only on what you want, hence it doesn't require that much discipline.)

for - definition - physiocrats - Steve Keen - economy - history - economic flow as biomimicry of body's circulation system

definition - physiocrat - During the 18th and 19th century, a group of mostly French "economists" led by Francois Quesnay, physician to the King of France at the time, performed some of the first autopsies of the time. - Autopsies were banned for the longest time for religious reasons - When Quesnay performed autopsies, he discovered networks of tubes in the circulation system and this led him to surmise a network of circulation in another field, economics - Quesnay advised the king, hence the name physiocrat - So modern economics has its roots in biology - it was a case of biomimicry!

I often find that people who discuss "workflows" and the idea of "processing" their notes are the ones who are falling trap to the anxiety-producing side of the work.

BD should have found more exciting words for "processing" which he uses two more times in the next paragraph.

This relates to Luhmann's quote about only doing what is easy/fun/flow:<br /> - https://hypothes.is/a/TQyC1q1HEe2J9fOtlKPXmA<br /> - https://hypothes.is/a/EyKrfK1WEe2RpEuwUuFA7A

Compare: - being trapped in the box: https://hypothes.is/a/AY7ABO0qEeympasqOZHoMQ - idea of drudgery in the phrase "word processing"

43:00 deliberate practice vs flow

Also see Cal Newport make comparisons (critically so for flow)

27:00 Flow is a meta-skill (also mentioned are creativity, critical thinking, learning)

20:55 "Decode flow, recode humans" (tagline of Flow Research Collective)

05:00 Connor Murphy is a data strategist and works at the Flow Research Collective. He is also into tracking data, on himself (quantified self).

1) choose long-term goals - if you did the same thing today for the next 10 years, where would you be? 2) choose hard games - hone skills and build characters through long-term games 3) choose positive-sum games - games where every player is benefitted by playing 4) choose atelic games - games that you enjoy the process of, not the reward 5) - choose immeasurable rewards - freedom, meaning love

• god, nation, family and work - traditional pillars of life
• it's exactly like cikszentmihalyi had said on flow state, that it's addicting and we'll go to far lengths just to experience it all over again

The first thing I ask people who cannot focus for more than an hour straight (which I would argue is a necessity for proper deep learning; see also Flow) is how their dopamine regulation is.

Dopamine regulation is the biggest factor that I know of (I am not an expert, so there might be even more influential factors) that hampers with the ability to focus for prolonged times in a cyclic way.

One can enjoy learning, and thus focus, if the average dopamine the brain produces is close to the dopamine they get when performing the act of learning. This is hard if someone uses "dopamine factories" such as TikTok and other shortform content.

Can religious experiences be made scientific? That which is beyond thought (and is wholly subjective)?

See Steven Kotler referencing flow science as making the supernatural ("A gift from gods") into science.

Gamify one's life to get progress if necessary. Integrate into systems.

Since 1908 there's also been the move towards small digestible social media which increases the dial on repetition and duplication, but the sense of flow created by dopamine hits to be found in the attention economy make these difficult things to overcome.

05:25 Clear goals are a prerequisite for the flow state. They free up cognitive load, which, in turn, makes entering flow easier

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https://justpaste.it/Light-Period-Flow-Hypomenorrhea

Flow Research Collective website

1:47:00 Cal Newport has insomnia. He though out his productivity protocols in part as a response to this.

Also see Rian Doris who had problems that led him to dive into flow

36:00 Not everything is flow. Some stuff is hard and taxing. Like deliberate practice. (Cal Newport) This was a debate between flow advocates versus none.

Also see idea of work as hard or enjoyment

38:00 Huberman on flow being a romantic idea. He asks Cal Newport about flow. Newport states that flow doesn't really have a place in the deep work framework. Deep work is not flow because it is beyond your cognitive comfort zone.

40:00 Flow is more linked to a performance than training

56:00 Huberman likening flow to something as dropping into a deep groove. You can't just drop into this immediately.

Newport proposing an alternative term to flow neural semantic coherence

Comment: Might these people be stuck in the struggle phase of the flow cycle? I think there is something else to it.

53:00 Sleep is a state of consciousness. You can't apply techniques to sleep.

Similarly, flow is a state of consciousness. It is something that happens to you. Create an environment that is conducive for sleep or flow to emerge.

56:00 The host presents an ultimate dilemma: between hard work and enjoyment in youth.

For me, there is no dilemma. If one can tap into states of flow, work itself becomes enjoyable. And, it is reduced to like 3/4 hours. Hustle and grind is even counter productive to being productive.

Example

07:27 Lower cognitive load makes it easier to enter flow

16:00 Flow channel — where challenge meets ability

How to beat procrastination?

07.00 Clear goals — goals that focus on the action, not the outcome. (Very specific)

See GTD on next-actions that make a distinction between outcomes (projects) and clear goals (Next-Actions)

"This keeps your brain from wondering, what is the first step?"

10.00 Challenge-skill balance. Find sweet spot where challenge is slightly more than your skill level. Too much challenge is anxiety, too little is boredom. How to tune it? (1) Lower the hurdle. (2) Compress time for a given task. (3) Define scope (What needs to be done? Why? How long?)

14.00 Bypassing/response inhibition. Engaging in a task as soon as you are committed. Don't waver. Sleep to flow is an example.

17.30 Flow payoff — have long blocks of focus, where the struggle to get into flow is actually worth it.

• for: climate crisis - resource flow, carbon budget - resource flow, carbon budget - resource redistribution

• comment

  • This is really a major change in the way resource flows
  • The high consuming countries and individuals need to drop their consumption drastically and give those to the decarbonization effort and to the disenfranchised who need to be uplifted to a state of wellbeing

31:00 Technological advancement makes flow more important than ever. We need flow to solve complex problems. However, flow is harder to attain with tech advancing — more distractions, less focus, more information.

04:18 All flow triggers are either (a) reducing cognitive load, or (b) increasing dopamine or norepinephrine, that drive focus.

Rian Doris people to first start reducing cognitive load. People are overwhelmed and feel like they can't take on new habits and tactics. He recommends to remove clutter from one's life. The more clutter we remove, the more time is left for flow.

08:30 High action sports like F1 have a higher innate rate of pregression due to their being flow, naturally, in these sports

Reminds me of the quote of Einstein - you can act as if everything is a wonder, or nothing is a wonder. It is important because curiosity is really an energy that moves you beyond ego. It is interesting because the idea of life being a stream of experiences is a very nourishing idea.

• for: question - kariotic flow - examples of purple side

• question: kariotic flow - purple side examples

  • Could Kylie provide corresponding purple side examples fo these specific orange side processes?

• for: salience mismatch, question - provide examples - kariotic flow

• question: Can Kylie provide an example of some damaging right side activities and how it could be corrected by including the corresponding left side activities?

• for: critique - without analysis, kariotic flow - emptiness, kariotic flow - entanglement

• critique: without analysis

  • really? Or has the analysis just gone to a deeper, subconscious level?
  • everything a person has learned in life creates a complex network of ideas that is like a giant, invisible toolbox ready to be drawn upon when the environmental context cues trigger a response from the toolbox
  • this would be impossible if years of past analysis and abstraction was not already done
  • any intelligent response to an event that emerge in our environment is not arbitrary, but draws upon this complex, learned past

• for: critique - language

• question: navigating without language

• critique: language
• adjacency between
  • kariotic flow
  • word intent
  • epoche
  • is the author sayng that we can and must navigator without language and ideas? If so, I don't see how that is possible, since language shapes the way we experience reality. Decades of languages training has become a part of the way we experience reality now and I don't see how it can become undone.
  • I've explored my entire life, in fact to determine it's itt is possible to undo this deep linguistic conditioning
    • my latest explorations of epoche are towards this direction

• for: kariotic flow - metacrisis explanation, question - salience

• question: salience

• critique,: inadequate explanation
  • I don't understand the salience of why the right half needs that left half.
  • I think the ideas are too abstract and while years of experience may make the author familiar with our salience, to a new mind looking at the ideas for the first time, there is a salience mismatch because they semantic fingerprints are different
  • a few concrete examples of , how this works to explain the metacrisis would be very helpful
  • there isn't enough time spent illuminating and explaining what each of these 6b abstract ideas are our why they are assigned such strategic importance. Hence, I do not appreciate their salience and the salience mishmash occurs

04:00 passion creates focused attention which, in turn, creates a flow state, which creates more passion (virtuous cycle)

13:00 the right flow of information is sweetspot between overwhelm and being bored (too little information)

16:00 balancing consumption and creation is sweetspot

07:00 flow increases dopamine/pattern recognition

36:00 flow ritual James Clear (music playlist)

Morgan, Robert R. “Opinion | Hard-Pressed Teachers Don’t Have a Choice on Multiple Choice.” The New York Times, October 22, 1988, sec. Opinion. https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/22/opinion/l-hard-pressed-teachers-don-t-have-a-choice-on-multiple-choice-563988.html.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150525091818/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/22/opinion/l-hard-pressed-teachers-don-t-have-a-choice-on-multiple-choice-563988.html. Internet Archive.

Example of a teacher pressed into multiple-choice tests for evaluation for time constraints on grading.

He falls prey to the teacher's guilt of feeling they need to grade every single essay written. This may be possible at the higher paid levels of university teaching with incredibly low student to teacher ratios, but not at the mass production level of public education.

While we'd like to have education match the mass production assembly lines of the industrial revolution, this is sadly nowhere near the case with current technology. Why fall prey to the logical trap?

37:00 solving problems/goals (projects) as creating flow (see this as challenge, seeking improvement)

And also have a vision, which you then break down into goals, projects, etc. (Horizons)

09:00 increases performance increasing neurochemicals & lowering cognitive load - these drive you into flow state, which releases a bunch of other neurochemicals - intrinsic motivation leads into flow, the flow state highers intrinsic motivation, (virtuous cycle)

flow triggers are diff for everyone, ie. identify the right one for the right person

08:00 True mastery lies in flow, where action is not forced (Musashi on flow)

09:00 harmonising mind, body, and universe, as way to reach flow & detachment

• see zk on following natural interest, our following the quickening of the spirit, as a process of understanding and harmony

Coffee as consistent with protestant work ethic

• see coffee as source for flow (in combination with distributed cognition)

30:00 confronting chaos, generating order

• see zk on flow as ordering consciousness

56:00 inspiration and motivation in hard environment is different

• see zk on using inspiration as getaway to flow

43:00 starting war

• see zk on Wu Wei (and try to rhyme these)

07:00 nagasu/ do not resist (same as flow)

• see “let it rain” as example of nagasu

01:46 samurai ryu (ryu = flow)

17:11 declarative statements as allowing easier entrance into deep work

• Also see how it could aid in flow?

thinking process when writing had to be inspired (by something deeper)

• see only writing what comes natural, following natural movements, wu wei

03:00 Ali changes locations, work as play (also see flow, Rian Doris)

• 20:47 Only creating out of flow a problem for people; “how often, or can we even, get there” (good market research)
• 24:17 you can’t force the process of creativity (exactly, Wu Wei)

• 1:23:20 Vision Pro as infinite Canvas
• Mac from personal computing, mobile computing, to spatial computing
• omg, it changes environment (contribution to flow, inducing novelty?)
• new os (VisionOS)

My view: intention as what to gather/learn, attention as what to do in the moment, looking at a note, which makes us aware of that thing, which results into curiosity (also good entry to flow)

https://www.history.msstate.edu/directory/cf1258

Christian Flow has studied three attempts to create a comprehensive lexicon of Latinity.

The TLL would be one, what did the other two look like? When were they?

Flow as a spirit of productivity

(24:58) In order to perform significantly better, you need to FOCUS your attention on a single thing only. Multitasking won't work, and thinking about different things at once also doesn't work. Set up your environment to foster this insane level of focus.

• Caffeine as backbone of civilization
• caffeine archetype ( I am the mindful master)
• high correlation between flow & caffeine
• associate caffeine with flow (I also do this with flow music)
• shortcut struggle phase with caffeine
• caffeine timing (1 to 1.5 hours until waking & 10 hours before sleep no caffeine)
• proper dosage (test what works) 4.1 higher dosage when lack of sleep
• what caffeine synergizes most (for me, probably coffee, in particular espresso) 5.1 double water intake when drinking caffeine (I always try to do this) 6 keep caffeine sensitivity high (1 day per week off, 1 week per quarter off)

• reduce perceived exertion (change positions) & reduce perceived effort (change places)
• main environment for (1) sitting (2) standing (3) walking
• standing set-up: motion board (& budget standing desk with books etc.)
• changing walking set-ups
• change working environments that are different from each other (for novelty)
• (1) three main environments to change positions (dip in energy/work is getting hard) (2) three additional environments to change places (when fatigue kicks in)
• take breaks that are "boring" (do nothing, stare at wall, break activities: stretching, breathing, meditating)

(4 pillars of flow) 1. flow blockers 2. flow proneness 3. flow triggers 4. flow cycle

• release from flow, go into recovery, don't snap
• less hours forces the person the be more effective, you also get obligations done within 3/4 hour block, and afterward, you can process and think about deeper things, be spontaneous, still do work, but it is not a obligation (work as leisure, as well?)

• waking up in 90 sec doing most important work bec mornings your "flow proneness" is high
• recovery is important, as well (morning routines should help with flow proneness and recovery, but bec you are flow prone in the morning, do the work, and do recovery in other parts)
• plan most important task (thing you will do after waking) the night before

12:00 Allen talks about the science of flow, but doesn't coin the term explicitly, he only refers to it as being in the zone. This makes sense: gtd makes you know your commitments, and helps you to focus on one thing at a time, undistracted, which gets you into flow.

Set a domino habit (the central point of your day): a habit that makes everything else better for the rest of the day.

Then, make temporal landmarks (and set alarms as reminders, hinges) which function as beacon to transition throughout the day, to make sure you can hit your domino habit.

1) the point that multitasking can offer different experiences with texts and tasks is interesting to me. initially, the comparison between multitasking and single-tasking seems like a clear distinction between what is beneficial (focus) and what is detrimental (distraction)

2) taking a bold stance, i would venture to say that there exists a significant number of individuals who engage in deep work, which is perhaps one of the most profound pursuits throughout human history. after all, most of us have experienced a state of flow at least once, to some extent, and our brains subconsciously crave this state of heightened focus and productivity

3) this observation all the more underscores the rarity of deep work in a world that is perpetually plagued by distractions

here is one of my notes from deep work by cal newport:

the connection between depth and meaning in human experience is undeniable. whether approached from the perspectives of neuroscience, psychology, or philosophy, there appears to be a profound correlation between engaging in deep, meaningful activities and a sense of fulfillment. this suggests that our species may have evolved to thrive in the realm of deep work and purposeful engagement

? the notes are the research/learning, no? Not only a residue of it. Is this a mix-up between the old stock and flow disc in (P)KM and the sense it needs to be one or the other? Both! That allows dancing with it.

Hard things for entering the flow

Why is this here? This statement or call to action seems hidden or out of place. Is the answer to the call to action something you want to expand on for this section?

This Figure 2.2 should also be on this page and in this section. Students should not have to go back and find it again to understand this concept. This Fig 2.2 is also needed here since it is used to compare with Fig 2.5

Again, if making reference to Fig 2.3, it should be shown here so students don't need to go back and search for it since it will be used as comparison for this learning box.

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The weight is imposed so that theresiduals in bright channels are relatively under weightedcompared to dim channels

Use of games involve the flow state. flow state is perhaps the most valuable state a student or anyone trying to learn something could be in. Flow combined with the acquisition of knowledge is a rare occassion that cannot be compared when taking education and insight as valuable with any other state (the normal state). (One could argue Thomas Campbell's trancedental medititative state, but he was a natural 'Talent', and it involves a practice of TM (Transcedental Meditation) that is beyond the scope of the ability of many educational settings to provide or consider).

https://youtu.be/qRSCKSPMuDc?t=37m30s (all links are on takesmartnotes.com)<br /> Luhmann, Niklas, Dirk Baecker, and Georg Stanitzek. 1987. Archimedes und wir: Interviews. Berlin: Merve.

By "easy" here, I think he also includes the ideas of fun, interesting, pleasurable, and (Csikszentmihalyi's) flow.

This makes me want to create RoundPegRoundHole. But then I'm not sure whether this should be in h. or tw. I would lean towards a public tw which has the feeling of TV Tropes in that it's a database of patterns. Perhaps that's the use case of publishing a subset of a tw/Zettelkasten.

The other (meta) thought this generated was how the decision of whether to be public or private interrupts the pleasant flow that comes from knowing exactly where to put a note and how to divide a thought. This is what experience tiddlywiki fluency is trying to capture.

Ashinoff and Abu-Akel propose an equivalence between "flow" and "hyperfocus". They mention later in this paper that "flow" is more often used in positive psychology literature whereas "hyperfocus" is more often used in psychiatric literature. Even so, they also qualify that they may just appear to be the same (ie, descriptively similar) while having a different cause (ie, mechanism of action).

https://lu.ma/az338ptc

Joey Cofone: Are there laws to creativity?

Joey Cofone, author of the upcoming book The Laws of Creativity, is selling the idea of "float" (in comparison to Mihaly Csikzentmihaly's "flow"), which is ostensibly similar to Barbara Oakley's diffuse thinking framework, Nassim Nicholas Taleb's flâneur framing, and a dose of the Zeigarnik effect.

I'm concerned that this book will be broadly prescriptive without any founding on any of the extant research, literature, or science of the past. I'll think more highly of it if it were to quote/reference something like Merton and Barber's The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science.

Following on the above:

David Allen (of GTD fame) indicates that one should close all open loops to free up working memory, but leaving some open for active thought, follow up, and potential future insight creation can be a useful pattern too. (2022-09-09 9:05 AM)

Mccarthy, C. (2022, February 22). This Fort Worth inventor created a DIY air filter that traps coronavirus particles. Fort Worth Star-Telegram. https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crossroads-lab/article258052148.html

Henry, J., & Tapper, J. (2022, January 29). Schools in England reinstate mask wearing rules as Covid cases soar. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/29/schools-in-england-reinstate-mask-wearing-rules-as-covid-and-absenteeism-soar

Chao-Fong, L. (2021, July 20). Lateral flow Covid tests run out on day lockdown is fully lifted | The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lateral-flow-test-run-out-b1886589.html