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How do you find creative flow?
Looking for ways to get into the deep work.
There’s something about the weather getting better outside that makes me extra restless when I get to my desk each day. Fighting off my email inbox, my YouTube addiction and looking for any reason to get out and ditch the task at hand, I’m finding it harder than ever right now to drop in and do the ‘deep work’ that my creative project demands. And so came the inspiration for this week’s question…
‘Flow’ is a concept that has been studied, and a lot of the benefits of being in flow point to productivity and knowledge acquisition. But I wanted to concentrate on another benefit: a sense of wellbeing. My obsession with practice, and figuring out how to keep creating work in a way that feels sustainable, suggests that flow can help on the journey — I want to lock into the ‘deep work’ needed to feel my best as a person, and by extension, feel my best creatively. Time to unpack this.
What we talk about when we talk about flow
Self-forgetful concentration is precisely what happens in the artistic process — an…
