Reading || Thinking about Flow
The author writes that spiritual energy and spirit are strong enough. As the author said, whether the spirit can bend the spoon can't be judged too early. What he means is that it is possible to bend the spoon with the spirit in the future, so you can say it is mysterious!
Seeing this, I remembered Tang San's spiritual strength in Douluo mainland. Spirit can be independent of physical investigation, and can also be used to control and attack. I believe that Tang Sanshao must have read this book or a similar book. Otherwise, how could he have thought of describing the spirit so powerfully, just like what was written in Flow?
This mysterious thing is always a bit empty, but it is indirectly proved by a lot of experiments and theories, many of which are guesses. Unlike natural science, natural science is actually a guess at the beginning of its definition. Such as geocentric theory, Heliocentrism, gravity, quantum mechanics, black holes, etc.
Even today's science has many unexplained phenomena. How did the universe first come into being? Where did our planet come from and where will it go? Our time is pitiful in front of the universe, and technology is developed, so far we can't detect the boundary of the universe.
There are many things about metaphysics in the Book of Changes in China. When I was in junior high school, I saw the Yijing Eight Diagrams and Sixty-four hexagrams, which were exactly the same as computer binary coding. Yin and Yang poles are simply another explanation of 0 and 1. But many things in the Book of Changes are also mysterious, such as common Feng Shui masters, divination masters and later qigong masters. These metaphysical things are always ethereal, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.
Let's accept the mysterious spirit. After all, I don't know much about psychology. If what I don't know doesn't exist and what I haven't seen is wrong, there are still many. For example, the earth is round, which most of us have never seen with our own eyes. For example, we have all studied physics and know that there are atoms, but how many people have seen them?
Entropy indicates the disorder degree of an object. How to understand it? We know that the smallest unit of all objects in nature is composed of atoms, molecules and other particles. The more orderly and stable the internal structure, the greater the energy of the internal structure; On the contrary, the more disorderly and unstable, the energy dissipates.
The greater the entropy value, the more disorderly it is, which is called entropy increase; The smaller the entropy value, the more orderly it is. This is called entropy reduction, also called inverse entropy.
All the energy on the earth comes from the sun, which converts light energy into biological energy and then gathers to form plants and animals. This is an inverse entropy process, which transforms disorderly sunlight energy into ordered biological energy. No matter animals or plants, the composition of the body is very orderly, including computer systems and the Internet, all of which are the result of entropy reduction.
When entropy decreases to a certain extent, it will increase. For example, people begin to develop from a fertilized egg, stop developing after reaching the peak of growth at the age of 18 to 25 (individual differences, women are early and men are late), then die with age, and turn to dust several years later. This process is from entropy reduction (orderly absorbing energy to form human body) to entropy increase (aging to death, then turning into dust).
Spiritual entropy indicates the disorder degree of spirit. The greater the spiritual entropy, the more disordered the spirit will be, and the spirit will be distracted and unable to concentrate. The smaller the spiritual entropy, the more orderly and energetic the spirit is.
There is a saying that "a genius is a madman". Actually refers to the same kind of people. The same feature of * * * is that the anti-mental entropy is high, that is, the spirit is very strong, and it can open up a world of self, just like opening up a new field for itself, and you can live in your own world.
The difference between a genius and a madman is that a genius can come back when he goes to his own world, while a madman can't come back when he goes to his own world. Genius can control and use the world created by itself, while madman is dominated by virtual world.
Flow is translated from English flow, representing a state, a state of high immersion. It has the following characteristics:
In fact, in our words, it is to focus on something. But it will be more specific. We should have suitable goals, highly concentrated attention and immediate feedback, shield irrelevant things around us, and achieve the state of selflessness.
Many professions can easily enter this state, such as poets and playwrights mentioned by the author. When they reach the state of flow, they will connect themselves with another world and immerse themselves in the virtual world.
This reminds me of Douro's domain skills. The role of domain skills is to open up a domain world controlled by oneself, let opponents cover their own fields, weaken their own attributes and increase their own attributes. The premise of domain skills is to have a strong spirit, and opening domain skills at a time consumes a lot of spirit.
The core of "flow" is to control consciousness, highly concentrate and reach the state of flow. Whether a person can enter the flow state or not, and the time to enter the flow state determines the optimal experience of life, and the more and longer this optimal experience, the happier and happier people will be.
The basic thing to enter the flow state is to control consciousness, concentrate, cooperate with appropriate goals and give immediate feedback. The most suitable place here is the game.
The characteristics of the game are clear rules, clear goals and immediate feedback. Good games must pay attention to these characteristics, such as the glory of the king. These characteristics can make you quickly enter the state of flow, feel relaxed and happy, have high mental input, forget time, shield irrelevant things for a short time, and consume a lot of fine energy at the same time.
Another easy-to-understand example is sex. It is sex that is focused, single-minded and gets positive feedback. Half-hearted, distracted, get negative feedback is rape. Sex is pleasant, romantic and happy, while rape is disgusting, obscene and sad. Because rape will definitely not enter a state of mobility.
Another foundation of flow is to have a strong body, which means nothing to ordinary people, because ordinary people have a short time to gather their spirits and enter the flow, which is far from unbearable. The club will arrange their daily physical training for players who specialize in e-sports, and their strong physique will help them extend their smooth time. For example, professionals engaged in writing and painting also need regular exercise.
Streams are also divided into high-level and low-level sub-levels The more complex the skills, the higher the flow level produced by the activities with stronger concentration, and the stronger the pleasure and happiness. Conversely, the lower the traffic level, the weaker the pleasure and happiness. For example, workers on the assembly line (for example, there is no meaning of belittling) and astronomers who study celestial bodies can enter the state of flow, just experiencing different things. They pay different mental energy. If they are mentally damaged and crazy, astronomers will give priority to madness.
In the eastern civilization, there are activities that are completely consistent with the flow of mind, such as Indian yoga and China Zen, all of which advocate spiritual cohesion and achieve a state of selflessness. And we ordinary people should practice entering the flow state from the following aspects:
First of all, let things be arranged with goals and feedback.
Try to make things have a clear goal, and at the same time the goal should form positive feedback. Positive feedback means that it can be done, but it is challenging. Too simple goals or too difficult goals will form negative feedback, so that you can't enter the flow state or shorten the flow state.
Second, practice concentration and improve skills.
The basis of flow is to control your mind and condense your spirit, so you must stay focused. Practice concentration from daily life, such as eating without looking at the mobile phone, tasting every meal carefully, doing things wholeheartedly and enjoying as much as possible.
To experience high-level flow, you must have complex skills. When you accept complex challenges and enter the flow, you need to gather more spirit, so as to get a better life experience and a higher level of pleasure and happiness.
"Flow" expounds how to live a better and happier life from the perspective of positive psychology. I hope my article is helpful to you, and I hope you can experience more flow and bring happiness closer.