Week 4
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Highlights:
Flow is present whenever you see the impossible become possible.
While something like an iphone notification provides a hit of dopamine, flow immerses us in a sustained experience of it.
The paradox of being in flow is that you are going toward a goal but the goal is irrelevant because the feeling of this state - the sustained experience of dopamine flooding your system, the feeling of play, joy, and complete immersion into the beauty of the moment - are bigger than the end place of achieving a goal. The promise of rewards inspires the sense of relentless dedication to complete what we need to do, but the satisfaction of task-oriented concentration and the absorption in the process are complete in and of themselves.
