There was a little friend in the custody who liked to play with puzzles, and there was a box of puzzles on the hosting gift shelf, and he had to go over and look at it for a long time every day, until one day, he took a handful of points and said to me: "Teacher, I have saved enough points, I want to redeem the box of puzzles." When he opened the box of puzzles, he entered a state of self-forgetfulness, and the people around him could no longer affect him, as if immersed in a small world that belonged only to him. In fact, this is what Dr. Mihaly calls the "flow experience."
"Flow experience" is the state of full concentration when we do certain things, and after entering this state, we often do not feel the existence of time, we will be highly focused on the current things, and after things are completed, there will be a very satisfying feeling, which is always very pleasant.
In fact, "flow" makes people feel happy, mainly because in the state of flow, we usually forget the noisy environment around us, as well as the daily distractions of thoughts, and harvest a kind of affirmation of our own hearts in the state of self-forgetfulness. Moreover, in the state of flow, people's attention is concentrated, and the efficiency of doing things is also very high, which makes us have a strong sense of accomplishment, which brings positive emotional value. If children can enter the "flow" state when learning, do math problems and forget to eat and read books, they can also immerse themselves in it, then it will not be easy to harvest knowledge, and learning will become a very happy thing.
In fact, if learning can be as fun as puzzles, it is not impossible, just like the science experiment class we promoted, let the children focus on doing experiments by themselves, and the scientific knowledge learned in the process of experiments always makes children remember deeply, and children will feel very happy in the process of learning.
The key is to immerse the child in one thing as soon as possible at the beginning, so that the child can experience and feel the pleasure of "flow" on his own. For example, when writing homework, you can take the child to do some ritual procedures first, because these rituals will make the child pay more attention to this matter, you can change the mentality of the child through some relaxed behaviors, you can change into comfortable clothes, or eat some fruits first, let the child form the conditioned reflex of "starting to learn after doing this thing", you can also let the child organize the desk before writing homework, take out the books to read or the homework to be written, and put them in a designated position. With these rituals, children will take their studies more seriously and realize that "now I'm going to start focusing on my homework" will make it easier to immerse themselves in it.
Children experience the feeling of concentration as much as possible from an early age, experience the joy of "flow", then there will be a greater sense of achievement, satisfaction and meaning in learning, and experience the joy and harvest that learning can bring, and children will be more willing to learn and grow.