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Re:Steps to Turn Off the Nagging Self-Doubt in Your Head by sygma on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @05:49AM (#11900849)
My understanding of flow is that it is triggered when the task is neither too easy or too hard. It's a sweet spot that maximizes your engagement with the task at hand.
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Re:Steps to Turn Off the Nagging Self-Doubt in Your Head by lgieron on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @11:25AM (#11902579)
Engagement != learning. If anything, I'd say engagement is closer corelated to output.

According to studies done on musical students (for what these studies are worth), the ones who practiced in "flow" progressed much slower than those who constantly and deliberately pushed themselves far outside their comfort zone.

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Re:Steps to Turn Off the Nagging Self-Doubt in Your Head by muhuk on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @05:59AM (#11900886)
Why can't so easy for you that you can lose yourself in it fall within neither too easy or too hard range?
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Re:Steps to Turn Off the Nagging Self-Doubt in Your Head by faitswulff on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @07:16AM (#11901190)
Because it fails to emphasize that there is any difficulty at all.
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