#13 Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 1990)

Flow. The nature of optimal experience. What is flow? How can we achieve this state? What are its conditions and components?   This episode we discuss how to transform daily experience into flow states by setting unified goals, becoming immersed in activities and paying close attention to our experience. We also talk about the environment and cultural impacts on flow alongside how we can structure our leisure time and work life in order to facilitate more immersive and enjoyable states that our experiencing self and remembering self will be happy with.   How can we lose ourselves in order to grow? How do our wider goals impact our experience of flow? A lot of questions answered and topics explored. Really enjoyed recording this one.    Hope you enjoy.  Will & Luke   00:15 Introductions  04:05 What is Flow?   06:15 The 8 Components of Flow (What we are doing is achievable, takes full concentration, goal itself is clear with immediate feedback, deep effortless involvement, you've got control of your own actions, sense of self disappears, sense of time alters)  09:45 4 Main Conditions of flow (Structured activity, sense of discovery, challenge that involves a skill, created by the self)  14:45 Experiences of flow   28:10 The autotelic self (Self that has self contained goals) (1. Setting unified goals 2. Becoming immersed in activities 3. Paying close attention to experience) How this all transfers experience into flow.  32:47 What we do in our leisure time and cultural influences  48:00 Choice of environment and affect on flow. (Reflection and action)  51:35 Enjoying the immediate experience (problems with constantly doing things for the future, experiencing self vs remembering self)  52:45 Lifestyle design for inner states  1:01:15 Final reflections after the video finished (Being lost in expectations and external responsibilities) (Doing things for ourselves, how thing changes with age) (Frontal cortex development makes it harder to be in the moment) (Impacts of work and technology) This specific episode can also be seen on: https://youtu.be/mdjm5pBMcKc Check our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Y_SKLFpax13442jA3giaw/videos Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2R1BRcriKWcvOU1XMJQhyW Listen to us on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/will-luke-discuss/id1572512365 Listen to us on Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81Zjk2YTNmYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Also available on: Anchor, Breaker, Pocket Casts, Radio Public.