Flow, Episode 9 – Chaos

James Hall, ego extraordinaire, "privileged white man", enjoyed Flow in the paradise of Montpellier a year ago, and is now here to symbolically remind you that you don't stand a chance in hell of improving your life with Flow thinking, because you can't be James Hall. You've got so much on your plate just trying to get through the day, that finding Flow experiences is way down at the bottom of the to-do list. This podcast is just a vanity project for James, counterproductively showing off how his Flow is better and more abundant than yours could ever be… right?Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi thinks not. And as Dan wisely observes, it's not all about James. If you enjoy our annual indulgence of feedback at Christmas then you're in for a treat; barely two months later and we're engaging with the rampage of our most critical listener. We start with Dan reading the Flow manifesto as Csikszentmihalyi puts it, which leads into a conversation about disabilities as catalysts for Flow, how symbolic profiling of skin colour and all other identity categorisation lends directly to Flow-obstructing chaos in consciousness, and other topics including the dissipative structure of the mind and finding order in consciousness with dementia. So come with us to overcome the psychic entropy of self identity, whatever yours may be, in the here and now. Can you Flow? Yes you can!Find all episodes of Private Practice Podcast and send us your thoughts on the Contact Us page of www.privatepracticepodcast.net – I'm sure we will enjoy the Flow experience of thinking about your concise, considered and extraordinarily witty contributions (neutrally whether you are another white man or if you are not).'Flow' by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi claims to be 'The classic work on how to achieve happiness', although we think it's more like 'how to create states of purposeful complexity', which make for enjoyment, which can be interpreted as happiness. But obviously no one is going to write that on the cover of a book. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi spent over two decades looking scientifically at situations in which people from a variety of social and biological backgrounds report feelings of deep enjoyment. His studies revealed that what makes experience genuinely satisfying is a state of ordered concentration and complexity, which eliminates the psychic entropy that causes anxiety, and he called this 'Flow'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.