These “cognitive states” are also economically precious—as “knowledge work” is routinized and automated, only creative insight has value.
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Getting yourself into one of these rare & valuable states may take several full-time days of frustrating failure, before the flow begins.
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Some of us learn tricks for accessing cognitive flow—meditation practices, rituals, substances, disciplines, routines, inspiring texts…
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… we learn how it *feels* to approach a specialized cognitive mode, we sense faint tendrils of the state…
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Because these cognitive modes are so valuable, institutions ought to promote them—providing conducive circumstances, and teaching methods!
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Most software companies get this exactly wrong, with open-plan offices and administrative busy-work interruptions. (This is well-known!)
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Research universities used to provide conducive circumstances for thinking—but perverse incentives and administrative idiocies negated that.
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When reading a complex contract, I practice “anti-meditation”… Instead of “when you notice yourself thinking, return to awareness of space,”
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… I invert the instruction to “whenever you notice yourself aware of space, return to thinking!” Otherwise, your mind constantly slides off.
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Each cognitive mode contains state-dependent knowledge. In periods of not meditating much, I literally cannot remember what the point is!
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As @fortelabs says, this implies we become a significantly different person when entering/exiting a mode; affectively & somatically too!
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So creative productivity requires skillful coordination of these “different selves” across time and tasks—a meta-systematic capacity.
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