Nathan Bloom: December 7 2009
Flow hit home with me when we discussed it during class lecture. To be honest although I have found the entirety of this course absolutely fascinating, I have found it hard to connect the ideas with my own life. Flow hugely helped me bridge the gap between new ideas and concepts and my own life. I am an avid sports player so I can say that I have experienced Flow many times during games and matches. Flow is forgetting everything around you and acting on instinct. It is focusing all attention on one action and those to follow without thinking consciously only subconsciously. My question is how do you "forsake a comfortable life for its sake" (Turner and Turner p.254)? I would love to live my life in flow and give up everything else, but from my experience, flow is not a decision one can make. It is a state that you enter without choice when you commit fully to an action or ritual. How then is one able to choose this as a lifestyle?
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