Still under lockdown, Sam and Connor discuss "flow". A man with an unpronounceable name, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, coined and developed the concept in the last half of the 20th century. Whether you're absorbed in work, sport or music you're probably experiencing flow. When musicians, sufi mystics, sportsmen, soldiers and artists are "in the zone" they're usually in a flow state. Religious and secular arts have been coveting and teaching flow as critical parts of their practices for hundreds of years but understanding it in broader contexts could be the secret to happiness itself…

The red-pill diagram we mention: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Challenge_vs_skill.svg/300px-Challenge_vs_skill.svg.png

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXIeFJCqsPs

Explaining Flow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h6IMYRoCZw

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Edited by Connor.