World champion Deng Yaping made a guest appearance at "Round Table Pie", talking about the state on the field, Dou Wentao said:
"Everyone says that the momentum is like a rainbow, as if once there is momentum, every shot is right, and people seem to have entered a peak state."
This state is called "flow" in psychology, not only in competitions and sports, when we do things, sometimes we are very engaged, do not feel the passage of time, nor can we hear any external sounds, it seems to enter the state of flow.
Once a person enters this state, the connection between the previous action and the next action, the switching between the previous task and the next task, without thinking, is dominated by the subconscious.
And the world around you is like circling around you, and everything in the world is at your disposal; the sense of time, the sense of space, and self-evaluation immediately disappear, like divine help.
Mikhari Chiksen Miharai, the originator of the flow theory and the founder of positive psychology, died on October 20, and he has devoted his life to studying what makes people truly happy, fulfilled and fulfilled, and how to perform optimally in all aspects of life.
The concept of "flow" also helps us to achieve our best performance.
What is flow? How do I reach the state of flow?
When I was in middle school, there was a classmate who had poor athletic ability and poor sports performance, but the middle school entrance examination sports accounted for 30 points, and 0.5 points may affect whether he could be admitted to the key middle school, so from the second semester of the third year of junior high school, she would go to the playground every morning and before the evening self-study.
She had to run 800 meters for the exam, and she was out of breath every time she ran less than 200 meters.
Once, she ran for a few hundred meters and felt short of breath as usual, her two legs were as heavy as lead, and she insisted on it for a while, and suddenly her breathing was smooth, and her steps became lighter, as if she could still run a long distance.
After running, I was still very energetic, and I could only do more than 20 sit-ups a minute, but I did more than 40 in one breath, which was a full score.
The PE teacher said: "This is a performance of crossing the limit. ”
Reach the limit, beyond the limit, after the human ability will become stronger, this is the meaning of repeated training,
And that moment of transcendence, when you are engrossed and self-absorbed, there is a feeling of energy and great satisfaction, which is the state of flow.
In "Cu Ding Jie Niu", when the butcher Cu Ding is engaged in the work he knows and loves, he has reached a state of forgetting both things and me, and he is in a state of good spirits:
Cu Ding is Wen Huijun's solution to the cattle, where the hand touches, where the shoulder depends, where the foot is walked, where the knee is stomped, and the knife is played, and the midrange is not the middle note. The dance in the "Mulberry Forest" is the meeting of the "Sutra Head".
At the work site of slaughtering cattle, the rhythm is orderly, the technique is fascinating, and the sound on the scene can conform to the rhythm, as if closing the beat of "Sanglin" and "Jingshou".
Cu Ding said: "Three years ago, when I solved the cow, I only saw the cow in my eyes, and after three years, I solved the cow, and there was no cow in my eyes." ”
Indicates that he has entered a state of flow.
Mihali summarizes the causes and characteristics of flow this way:
First, attention. "Anyone who has experienced flow knows that deep happiness is the result of strict self-discipline and concentration," he said. ”
Second, there is a goal that he is willing to pay for. It doesn't matter what the goal is, as long as the goal focuses his attention on it.
Third, there is immediate feedback.
Fourth, with this preoccupation, everyday annoying trivia is forgotten and shielded.
Fifth, we have reached a state of self-forgetfulness.
We often say that his small universe suddenly exploded, in fact, it was accumulated to a certain extent, all actions do not need to be thought, extremely coherent, in one go.
Concentration is the key to flow, and concentrating attention requires a goal. Where does the goal come from?
Mihali believes that most people's goals are subject to physical needs or social traditions, that is, from the outside world, such as the mainstream believes that having a house and a car is the goal, so your goal is to buy a house and a car.
When the outside world provides you with a goal, it often attracts you to follow it with some kind of reward, work hard for the external goal, be satisfied when it is smooth, and fall into complaints and anxiety when it is not smooth, and become a slave to the goal.
This is also why there is the concept of "house slave" and "car slave".
People who can enjoy themselves have a goal of self-reliance as a "self-made goal".
That is to say, to do this, you do not pursue future rewards, doing this thing itself is the biggest reward.
For example, investing in the stock market in order to make money, not making money will be painful;
But if you play with stocks to prove that you have the ability to predict future trends, you will be happy if you predict correctly, look for trends if you predict wrong, and enjoy the process.
People who are determined to pursue an important goal, know what they want, and work hard in this direction, feel, think, and act together seamlessly, and inner harmony naturally emerges.
People who live in harmony, no matter what they do or what they encounter, do not waste their spiritual energy on doubt, regret, guilt, and fear, and their energy is always spent on what is beneficial.
For those who are confident in life, inner strength and tranquility are the highest state of inner unity.
Direction, determination, and harmony transform life into a seamless experience of flow and give meaning to it.
Mihali often tells his students that you have to choose a job that matches your own IQ.
Don't do it after ten years and find that you have exhausted all the mysteries of this job, it is boring, and it is doubtful whether you can find and re-learn to do a challenging job after middle age.
To use the analogy of chess, don't choose checkers with high IQs, choose Go, because it can attract you for a long time.
Experiments have found that the experience of flow is 54% more likely to occur at work, much higher than 18% at leisure.
The work scenario is closer to the conditions required for flow: clear goals, timely feedback, skills that can be used, challenges and difficulties, and so on.
But why don't most people experience happiness at work, let alone flow?
Mihali argues that this is precisely because we regard work as an external goal, that it is mandatory, that it must be done in order to survive, that we are happy when we get paid more, that we feel exploited when we pay less, and that few people enjoy the process of work.
Mihaly says that work has intrinsic goals, feedback, rules of the game, and challenges similar to flow activity, which can make people engaged, engrossed, and forgetful.
In general, most people miss the opportunity to have fun in their leisure time, which is more serious than when they work. The work was not devoted enough, the leisure was wasted, and finally their whole life was dimmed.
Therefore, the truly happy person is the kind of person who can experience flow when working, and has a colorful life in his leisure time, and will not waste it.
Happiness is only felt when you don't care about good or bad, and you are fully committed to every detail of life.
Aristotle once said that the pursuit of happiness is the highest goal of life, regardless of men and women.
No matter how history develops, people's desire for happiness will never change.
How to achieve happiness?
In "Flow", it is written:
Happiness does not happen instantaneously; it has nothing to do with luck or probability, cannot be bought with money, and cannot be used to seize power;
It is not manipulated by external things, but depends on our interpretation of external things.
In fact, happiness depends on personal practice, full preparation, deliberate cultivation and maintenance.
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Author | Kale, write other people's stories well, live your own life.
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