How To Actually Get Into Flow State
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I love how Dr. K speaks to the guests with that sort of positive reinforcement type attitude but also makes it informative and accurate while doing so. It makes me feel so happy 🥰🥰🥰
I totally know what you mean, but it's also not all guests! Certain types of personalities cause him to adapt in super interesting ways depending on who he's talking to
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@@DingleFlop can you list some videos where I can see that in practice? Super interesting
@@nishadh366the one with Thor might be helpful
Flow is… amazing.
I once practiced a song on an instrument, got into flow, and it sounded, amazing.
Went to preform.
Wasn’t in flow, got nervous about the audience….
…
Yah… not good.
Flow state on an instrument is a hell of a feeling. You can just let go and your body and mind take over
I agree 100% with you. I'm a very beginner, but when the flow hits, wow, it's an amazing feeling. Not because it sounded perfect (it didn't), but because I played it without worries
If you have the skill level to reach that state, then all you need is a confident mindset to reach it, which is easier said than done.
Dunno if this will be helpful, but rather than focus on where you might fail and how bad that will feel, focus on where you'll feel really good if you succeed.
But then you get into the flow state on stage, kill it and get absolutely addicted, you won't want to leave that stage. So fun.
@Cobalt_11 this also applies to singing. Once something is practiced enough you stop trying to remember subtle cues and just do them, you start listening closer to the other voice parts then you ever have. You feel everyone around you and can pick out who's in that flow with you. The only times you exit it is when you're not confident in a section or someone makes a distracting mistake, but you always make it back if its practiced enough.
So the flow state requires us to be in the present 🤔
yes
Yes, or else that’d be the flew state
flowed*
@@sportmaniac10 That'd be the "flowed" state or the "flowel" state. "flowed" as past tense and "flowel" as future tense. I made up "el", but it sounds better than "will flow".
Focus happens only in the present, whereelse?
Flow state is a amazing. Definitely feels a lot easier to enter it when you get enough rest and aren't constantly overstimulating yourself.
Nowadays it's weird because I feel like the only time I can enter flow state is when my brain goes into troll mode fighting my casual friends in a fighting game. Anytime I try to improve at the fighting game, or if anything is on the line I get too distracted by what I "should" be doing, and there's always a tiny part of the brain that reminds me how I've failed a million times in the past, this probably won't change now, so stop wasting time and stop playing the game.
Really gotta get back on my meditation, sleep schedule, and diet. It helps make life feel like easy mode I swear. Just hard 'cuz once I get tired, it kinda triggers my younger gamer self's thought process of "Oh we're tired? It must be mindless grind time now to make sure everything is completed quickly". Really hard habit to remove.
this describes exactly me sometimes lol
not for a while, haven't had much time to just play games, but when i do, it's exactly like that
Wait...so that's why games are so fun, because you're in flow mode! That makes sense.
@@nowonmetube Depends on the kind of game you are playing. Look at Csikszentmihalyi's flow state chart.
Like you're not going to be in flow state playing Animal Crossing. That game is too relaxing to get anyone into flow state since it's all about enjoying the little moments and taking your time.
Though a lot of games with perceived challenge in mind trigger flow state for sure. Souls-like, shooters, rhythm games, racing and so on. The games you love the most will likely know how to trigger your flow state the best if you love it for gameplay reasons.
I'm just biased towards fighting games for the past few years because I used to swap from the previous genres so quickly, and it never felt like there was much depth. I grew up playing Chess, and fighting games feels like playing blitz chess except both players have unique tools to adapt to, so that's probably why I love fighting games so much.
Now there's one game off the top of my head that I'm extremely addicted to that I love for gameplay that I'm not sure if it's flow state or not and that's Rain World. Though I have a feeling it's really really good at dipping you in and out of flow state in a way I don't get from any other game.
I highly suggest the game, and avoiding spoilers (though it's mostly environmental storytelling, which is a nice breath of fresh air from all the lore shoved in your face from most games). That said, do expect it to feel a bit BS if you haven't played anything like it before. I actually hated it at first because I wasn't in the right mindset as I was expecting a different type of game. Later I tried it again and gosh darn I'm so hooked like you wouldn't believe.
(This comment was a bit longer than I thought it'd be, hope you had a fun read!)
As someone with adhd who works as a freelancer I find it super important to reach flow state at least once a day for productivity. I’ll def be thinking about this next time I’m struggling to reach it
Don't think about reaching flow state, then it will become harder to reach it 😅 Just do what you're doing 😊
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This will help me land my kickflip
What really sucks is that bigger ambitions with lots of intention require constant thought about the future. Most of my time goes to practicing to trust myself with the future.
That is fascinating, with my adhd I have found myself needing to distract my mind just a little bit because I did notice that overthinking made me go into manual mode. I guess not being too self conscious in the moment can get you to a flow state.
yeah you need to clear out cognitive load
Flow state during sparring is amazing
I think this how i felt when i got really comfortable skiing. Not perfect but clmfortable.
Also sometimes while I'm unicycling. I'm learning rn so I'm not exactly smoothe lol but it's fun.
ski and surfing are very flow prone activities
Big reason why I miss riding motorcycles is because of the clearing effect of the flow state - nothing else matters except the current moment and whatever your doing. Afterwards I feel lighter, clearer and sharper - keen to get back to riding soon to remove the foggy rust of life
This is why I love motorcycling
Yeah but that’s relying on the outer world…
100% of our problems happen when we think about it. If we were cows, we have no problem, just flow.
A cow doesn't...think? What do you think that brain of theirs does?
A wilder cow or most wild herbivores are consistently thinking about when their next meal is on the table, where the predators are and how to avoid them, where the safe water sources are, making sure they don't stray from the herd, etc, etc.
A cow that has been locked up in a barn, sure, doesn't have much to think about it. It's also why it's a crime that they don't get the stimulation of outside life and learning the highs and lows of survival.
@@echo6093 If we lock a child inside a room for first 20 years and then release them, that person will be also dmb as rock.
So I think if we train animals, they can be smarter than a locked up domestic animal
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Ah yes, ultra instinct
So thinking about threats and loss of control etc, and what ifs and what happend
it’s all unprocessed emotions too that keeps you from staying grounded in the now
I love getting into a flow state while I'm writing. I can just keep going and going, and it feels like fresh ideas just keep coming. The concept explains so much why ideas don't always come easily when distracted or anxious about something, because those things are too future focused.
I’m almost always in flow state when playing basketball, since I always visualize really any possible situation before I step on the court so when a situation I’ve visualized happens I basically follow through automatically making every right decision
I miss flow state.
I used to just live in it for weeks at a time.
My life is so tumultuous and dynamic.
I'm hoping to find some stability where my fears aren't validated to get back there.
While I know flow state should be achievable anytime, I've made some commitments that are a bit of a gamble. It's hard to be in the flow while looking around going "I hope it works for just a little bit longer!"
I don't have the confidence of Capt Jack Sparrow sailing to the dock on his sinking skiff.
Flow is beautiful. It's a state where you are doing without having to think. It's also a state where, if you do think, you automatically leave it.
flow state: children playing. they are only thinking about the game.
Adults working: thinking about the future: if the boss is going to like your work, thinking about the self: how people are perceiving you in the company.
In my experience, the most possible way to access flow state is to learn to accept things. Like, nothing will stand in your way if you let it pass through. Thoughts, tiredness, anxiety, ....
Oh, and a right amount of coffee too, can't forget that 😂
Grief, fear and worry shows that someone is not in God's Kingdom, in God's Kingdom there is perfect happiness. Ego is something we need to kill so that we can enter God's Kingdom now and forever, and it is commanded by God, stated in Chapter 2 of Quran.
I don't mean this to be a negative comment It's just a genuine question. Isn't it good to think about your past, future, and yourself? I do tend to question myself a lot, but for there to be self improvement Isn't there a little bit of questioning to do to identify and fix the problem? I don't know for sure, I am just viewer that is curious is all but maybe it would help me understand a little better.
i had no idea Ludwig did moto trackdays!! that's awesome id love to see content of that
I was recommended Professor Dave by a friend and it seemed like a cool channel until I saw how shallow his takes on your videos were. I had seen these videos and it seemed to me like he hadn't even watched them, just scrolled to the first part that got him triggered.
Would be mindblowing if he did a video admitting his mistakes as well :D
I ching, line 2 exagram 25 😉
"You're either thinking about the past, present or future"
My brain: How about all 3 at once?
Thinking about future is foresight, a good thing
Yes, generally this is correct and it's a massive ability that we possess that not all creatures do.
But.
The point that's being gotten at is that while you are focusing on the future it may disrupt your present. It distracts you and causes worry and all types of things that prevent you from focusing on the now. Being lost in the future is just as bad as stuck in the past.
You can consider things via intuition, just as long as you're not in the future constantly and never in the present. Can throw off your focus without balance
Agreed. But the vid was about how to truly focus and get to work in the present
My main hobby is rock climbing. When asked why I like it so much, there's...a lot of reasons. I think I can distill it down to that climbing COMPLETELY engages me while I'm doing it. Of course I'm not able to achieve that every time I climb, but when I do, it's the best feeling ever.
UI me soon come
❤❤❤
But how?
or…. im thinking about nothing and wasting days away playing random crap video games :/
Wow!
That first sentence was profound!!!!
The problem with the flow state (for me at least) is that it immedeatly breaks when you don't know what to do
99.9% of things you imagine in the future never happen
So no comparison and no minding the future... hm
I mean, how do you actually control your thoughts?
If we remove these elements we are closer to flow. Im not sure how to remove them, can you help?
"This one, a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away, to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was, hm? What he was doing. Hm!"
That was a eureka moment right there
"I'm going to climb a mountain."
"Who cares bro, I'm not thinking about future, and I'm not thinking about the past (that I should've learned beforehand), I'm living in the present bro, let's do this."
Geez. Love Dr K. The guy he is talking to is a dummy.
Why do you need to offend people? Do you feel better now?
He may be dumb, but can you do the Luddy?
Your comment shows how little you actually take away from Dr. K 😅
Ludwig is actually a very sharp guy. He's really quick as a conversationalist.