So I've been invited to talk about flow. 1st I want to describe to you what flow is essentially flow is a psychological state of mind where your ego completely disappears and you enter a highly productive workflow.Time seems to pass really quick and you get this amazing feeling that you're accomplishing so much some.
我曾被邀请谈一谈对心流的看法。首先我想向你描述一下心流的本质是什么心流是一种心理状态,在这种状态下,你的自我完全消失,你会进入一个更高效的工作流程。时间看起来过的很快,并且你会有这种惊奇的感觉,你正在完成这么多事情。
People report working 12 to 15h a day and some even say they forget to eat or go to the bathroom. Anyway,there are some giant positive effects of entering flow to being increased happiness and increased productivity.
人们报告说每天要工作12到15个小时,有些人甚至说他们忘了吃饭或上厕所。总之,心流状态的进入有一些巨大的积极效果会增加幸福感和加强生产力。
So I'm here to teach you how to inter flow on your own. Another great benefit of entering flow is a satisfaction reported among those studied they seem to have a clear feeling of their purpose being fulfilled. Basically this is one of the highest versions of intrinsic rewards.
因此,我在这里教你如何自己进行心流。进入心流的另一大好处在于被研究者中,他们似乎清楚地感觉到他们的目标得到了实现。基本上,这就是内在自我的的最高等级的奖励。
While usually producing extrinsic rewards also the author of the book Mihaly csikszentmihalyi at interviewed a bunch of professionals who had this related feeling to try to find out what caused it. And see if it could be replicated from athletes to musicians to engineers. They kept saying things like,I just feel like I get a sense of absolute awareness and work seems so fun and super easy. After some analysis he found out some basic criteria that must be met to reach optimal experience in any task.
而通常会产生的外在奖励也是这本书的作者米哈里在采访了一群有这种相关感觉的专业人士试图找出了原因。并看看是否可以从运动员到音乐学家再到工程师身上复制下来。他们一直在说,我只是觉得我有一种绝对的意识,工作似乎很有趣,且超级容易。经过一些分析之后,他发现了在任何任务中一些基本标准是必须要满足的,才能达到最佳的体验状态。
Secondly I want to say that flow to me at least isn't this on or off binary switch. It's more of a dimmer switch. When you get all the variables just right,it feels amazing. Now let's move on to the variables needed to inter flow.
其次我想说的是,至少对我来说,心流并不是这种开启或是关闭的二进制开关。它更像是一个调光开关。当你把所有变量都弄得恰到好处的时候,这种感觉很奇妙。现在让我们讨论心流所需的变量。
The 1st is that any task you do must have a sense of initial quick feedback. For this reason programming is a great field where many professionals experience flow. A quick change in the source code and suddenly the whole thing is working, not usually but you get the idea quick feedback. The 2nd is that the task must have long term feedback. Something like seeing that fully functioning web page or new video game launched at market is the long term feedback and also is basically a goal for the individual.
第一,你所做的任何事情都必须有一个初步的快速反馈。因此,编程成为一个伟大的领域,许多专业人员的经验交流。在源代码快速变换的同时,整个事情都在很好的运行,虽然并不常见,但是得到了想法的快速反馈。第二就是任务必须有一个长期的反馈,诸如看到的全面运作的网页或在市场上推出的新视频游戏都是长期反馈了,而且基本上都是个人目标。
The author of flow notice that all of the studied individuals had a goal to work for. Something that gave them a purpose further work. See flow is pretty amazing because it helps us in our sense of purpose or rather gives our mind the tools and proper mindset to get closer to fulfilling our purposes. Progress is also in this criteria. You must be able to measure your progress over time to understand that you're actually improving which will fuel your work ethic even more so.
心流的作者注意到,所有被研究的人都有一个目标,即为某件事工作。这给了他们一个进一步工作的目的。看到心流是相当惊人的,因为它有助于我们的目的感,或者是说给我们头脑提供工具和适当的思想,以接近实现我们的目的。进展也在这个标准之中。你必须能够衡量你在一段时间内的进展以了解你确实在进步,这将更加激发你的工作热情。
The first and 2nd requirements are short and long term feedback and the third criteria for entering flow is that the challenge a task offers must be slightly out of reach for the individual. In other words,it has to be easy enough to not be seen as a super difficult challenge. But it also has to be difficult enough,so that it's not completely boring. This is where programmers get hooked for me.
第一个和第二个要求是短期和长期的反馈和进入心流的第三个标准就是一项任务所提供的挑战,必须是个人所不能达到的。换句话说,他必须足够容易,不被视为一个超级困难的挑战。但他必须足够苦难,这样他就不会完全无聊。这就是我对程序员迷恋的地方。
I remember spending hours literally days working on this game website the idea was that all of the game websites in my high school were blocked. So I was going to code a version that didn't get blocked. It included lots of java script php. And eventually I got it to work,but the whole time I was in the flow state of mind it was amazing.
我记得我花费了数小时甚至是几天在这个游戏网站上,我的想法是,我高中的所有游戏网站都被封锁了。所以我打算编写一个不被封锁的版本。它其中包括大量的java和php语言。最终,我还是让他运行了起来,但整个过程,我都处于思维流动的状态,这很令人惊讶。
I knew I could eventually figure it out.And I wasn't going to give up until it worked, because every hour or so I'd make a new breakthrough.Learn something new and put it to use and it had all three of these previous requirements.
我知道我最终能解决这个问题。在它成功之前我不会放弃,因为每隔一个小时我就会有一个新的突破。学到一些新的东西,并把它用起来,而这种状态也具备之前所说的三个要求。
I could see improvement each day.I had short and long term feedback on the website, and it was challenging enough that it wasn't boring ,but it wasn't enough to scare me from trying. But here's when flow wore off though, eventually I got it to work. Some of my friends used it, and then there was no more improvement. It worked where could I go from there. The goal had been achieved so the flow wore off.
我可以看到每天都有进步。我在网站上有短期和长期的反馈,他有足够的挑战性,不会让人感到无聊,这还不足以吓到我,让我不敢尝试。当心流消失的时候,最终,我也把这份工作完成了。我的一些朋友也运用过心流,但是最终却没有任何改善。它其实是有效的,我就是从这里开始的。当目标已经实现的时候,心流自然就会消失。
Now I'm achieving flow making videos about psychology and different book reviews on my channel,and making a pretty good living from it. Actually I highly advise you to reverse engineer your work, and be more self aware about your experiences, and aim them to be more productive with this amazing mind tool.
现在我在制作关于心理学和不同书评的视频在我的频道上,并且从中获得了相当不错的收入。事实上,我强烈建议你对你的工作进行逆向工程,对你的经验有更多的自我意识并将其作为目标,用这个神奇的思维工具提高生产力。
Another thing that will increase your changes of flow is to reduce distraction. Respectively once you achieve a high state of flow,all distractions will seem to disappear,including the urge to release your bladder or fill your stomach which strangely demolishes maslow's hierarchy of needs,which says that each need must be met for a higher need to be a motivating factor. But that's a talk for another video.
另一件会增加你思维流动变化的是减少分心。一旦你的思绪达到高水平状态时,所有的分心似乎都会消失,包括释放膀胱的冲动或是填充你的胃的冲动,真很奇怪地违背了马斯洛的需求层次理论,即每个需求必须得到满足,才能使更高的需求成为激励因素。但这是另一个视频谈话的内容。
A personality trait of curiosity will also increase your overall chance of entering flow, as well as high levels of grit and persistence and low levels of selfishness.
好奇心的个性特征也会增加你进入心流状态的机会,同时也会提高自身的勇气和坚持程度,以及降低自私的水平。
Don't let these bottleneck you though. As these are just theories and there's still a ton. We don't know about the human brain. The implications of this psychological awesomeness rang from cubicle work to create a design to military use,including gaming and marksmanship. And apparently according to Wikipedia spirituality.
但是不要让这些问题成为你的瓶颈。这些只是理论而已,类似的还有很多。我们不了解人类的大脑。心理上的巨大影响包括从隔间工作到创造设计再到军事用途,包括游戏和设计。显然,根据维基百科,精神上的影响是巨大的。
Now that you have an idea of how to get to flow. You should know that not every activity or task can be flow producing. For example, you cannot achieve continual approve on something like flipping a coin. What you can do though is get creative about it,make it more challenging. Flip a coin upside down, go and flip a coin underwater,flip the world's largest coin. These are obviously strange examples,but they symbolize what you should do when something.
现在你已经知道了如何进入心流的方法了。你应该知道,并非每项活动或任务都能产生心流。举个例子,你不可能实现持续维持这一状态就像扔硬币一样。但你可以做到的是发挥创意,让它更具挑战性。把硬币倒过来,在水下扔硬币,就能扔出世界上最大的硬币。这些显然是很奇怪的例子,但它们象征着当有事情发生时你应该做些什么。
Your love starts to get a bit boring and you're itching for that new love again. There's some more topics in the book like where your attention goes and other interesting things. But I think those would require a separate video. Anyways I want to thank Brandon for letting me have this opportunity of a collaboration
你的爱情变得有点无聊时,你渴望再次获得新的爱情。书中还有一些话题比如你的注意力去向和其他有趣的事情。但我认为这些需要单独的视频来讲。总之,我很感谢有这个合作展示的机会。