In the groove, intense creative energy feels effortless. This is “deep laziness.”
@sarahdoingthing provides a recipe for deep laziness in this post: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/04/06/deep-laziness/ …pic.twitter.com/7zz4i5BqfQ
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The Herbie Hancock quote is from his recent autobiography, _Possibilities_.
Hancock is a Buddhist, and the book explains how Buddhism influenced his life and music. (I haven’t read it, but it’s on my list!)
h/t @conrad & @drfeldthttps://www.amazon.com/Herbie-Hancock-Possibilities-ebook/dp/B00ISEOMVI/ …
Well… that’s why Vajrayana has a slew of practices. They seem to work. Maybe less efficiently than I’d like! I can’t reliably not-judge, but I do judge less when I practice more, and find myself in flow more often.
I think that’s why you can easily achieve & identify flow in sports. In most sports there’s no time to judge wrongness, you just have to keep going and adjust.
Good point!
This is probably related to the deactivation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in improvising musicians (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001679 …). I bet that corresponds to some kind of shutting down of self-judgment.
Nice! I hadn’t seen that paper… your hypothesis is consistent with what little else I know about the DLPFC.
@sarahdoingthing may also be interested, since she’s been enthusiastic about DLPFC inhibition for years: https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=dorsolateral%20from%3Asarahdoingthing&src=typd …
Somehow this reminds me of machining tolerances, though it’s really not the same thing at all. Also reminds me of juggling, though...
Juggling is definitely a flow experience!
Where is the Herbie text from?
It’s from his new autobiography. I’m afraid I don’t have the title handy on my phone.
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