Flow is not for beginners

[frabarmus]

And some incense, of course!

[djg]

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this is madness.

[mr. beaumont]

If you're actually interested in "flow," read the book "Flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Its great stuff.

It is absolutely a place we can consciously work to get to. It is absolutely not just zoning out.

[lawson-stone]

Scientists studied the phenomenon of flow in jazz pianists, using neuroimaging. They found a lot, including this:

The flow state in jazz is not available to beginners. A pianist who has been playing for six months and who stops monitoring their left hand does not enter a creative state; they hit wrong notes. The release of monitoring that produces creative flow is available only to musicians who have practised long enough that the monitoring can be safely suspended because what it was monitoring has become automatic. The freedom comes after the constraint, not instead of it.

As Goethe said: "In der Beschränkung macht sich erst der Meister." = "In limitation best is the Master manifest"