A piece of wisdom from
August 20, 2023 · Sunday
The quote
“Read the book. Then close it. Then read the world. The book is a map; the world is the ground.”
— distilled maxim · The 48 Laws of Power
The concept
Flow State
The closest you get, in waking life, to disappearing, and being more yourself than ever, at the same time.
Flow is not productivity. It is not focus. It is the optimal state of human experience, total absorption in an activity that matches your skill to a challenge worth caring about. Csikszentmihalyi spent thirty years documenting it across sur…
A practice for today
Before bed tonight, name one thing where the lesson of Flow State. The closest you get, in waking life, to disappearing, and being more yourself than ever, at the same time.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 12.13
अद्वेष्टा सर्वभूतानां मैत्रः करुण एव च। निर्ममो निरहङ्कारः समदुःखसुखः क्षमी॥
“He who hates no creature, who is friendly and compassionate, free from the sense of "I" and "mine", equal in pain and pleasure, patient — such a person is dear to me.”
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