flow

It's an odd feeling: flow is experientially satisfying, but the creeping self-abnegation is worrying. I also notice it takes quite a while to "reset" from this phase, to start hearing myself think again, to feel like less of an automaton. ****

I have no time for anyone trying to put a process around creative work. flow states do not live inside a linear creative process. You need the freedom to leap ahead, retreat, move back to paper when you’re struggling on screen and vice versa.

I don't experience this feeling when I spend many days back-to-back in flow doing other work: developing an idea, writing, designing. I wonder if it's bc those activities are more creative, involve more reflective thought. Or maybe it's that I'm worse at them—so flow's less deep! ****

one way of interpreting boredom is that there are no stakes, no consequences, nothing affects anything. IME people tend to do this to themselves. they're typically afraid or avoiding something uncomfortable/challenging/risky etc. the "opposite" of boredom is flow

I don't think flow is really the opposite of boredom. flow is pure execution of a task, no learning or engagement or curiosity just glorious purpose *