Up: [[Experiencing Time]] Related: [[Wandertivity]], [[Flow]] Created: 2025-01-04 Updated: 2026-03-11 A truth - We want to be operating from a place of flow. For decades I was in love with the concept of [[Flow]] as described by [[Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi]]. I loved the idea of skill meeting challenge in a perfectly matched duet. It felt like this was the territory of the masters, the place where the skill level was so high that it would be a pleasure to sail in the challenging environment. My old conception of flow took the pleasure of working long hours on a passion that was also a necessity, namely my book writing, and tried to make it effortfully enjoyable, a space I could be lost in. I now think of that as a kind of toxic productivity. At the very least it is doing without any being. My new understanding of flow, as in a flowing river, is to flow with life, with intuition. This kind of flow demands an element of letting go. There’s still action because energy wants to move and we need movement to encourage flow. But the action to support flowing with life is the gentle exploration of [[wandertivity]] — life approached with a sense of ease, curiosity and delight.