#20 - Establishing a focus for my website: Psychological Flow
When I was in college getting my bachelors in Philosophy/Psychology, I really wanted to find a topic to study/pursue in my side studies. I spent many weeks researching a project that I could do until I came upon a grant called, “The Better World Grant”. It was a competition that let college students submit proposals for their projects and the winner would win a lump sum of money. Rather than be focused on the money at the time, I was really interested in just finding a topic and writing a book. My book was called “Eduflow” and it was a toolkit for helping people learn and work more productivity. At the time, I wasn’t aware that there was a huge body of research on this topic and that “Psychological Flow” was a very real thing. I wrote this short book and been waiting/sitting on creating this website/blog for a very, very long time.
Well fast forward now to 2024 and here I am. Finally writing about it and wanting to do more research on the topic. This week I took a look at the wikipedia article and thought it would be really neat and ambitious to try to tackle all the citations in the article. So that’s what I want to do! I will continue to try to develop my side courses, but the blog part I will try to research and continue to go through this literature. My goal is that I want to establish myself as an expert by surveying all this knowledge, then delivering the information back to my audience in the form of courses, books, and other products. That’s the kind of value that I want to provide.
Anyways, I will upload my notes that I took while reading. I really like to mark up my notes. Nope, I do not use any sort of AI tools or anything like that on my blog. Everything I create is solely myself. So by uploading my notes/artwork I want to show my audience this.
Here are some great points that I read while going through the wikipedia article. It was a lot, but these are the main great points:
-Some people experienced flow as sort of like water. Which is awesome! Because water is the theme of my book that I want to publish on Flow!
-There’s traditionally three ways to measure flow states in people: A Flow Questionaire, an Experienced Sampling Method, and a standardized scale. Some other researchers have made their own customized approach.
-The state of flow lies in six factors and only when all of these factors are combined is when someone experiences a state of flow.
-The applications of this phenomenon are great! It applies to virtually almost every field and I think is sometimes missed in common self-help/self-improvement psychology.
The article had a lot of substance, but those are the main points that I wanted to address. So you’ll be able to see my notes and in future blog posts I will try to simplify the information that I have. One thing I don’t like about my blog currently is that I cannot see an archive of the posts that I currently have. So I will be working on getting a comments section going for users and a way for my blog posts to show up in a more organized form.
Additionally, I made my first video for my upcoming course, “The Efficient Computer User”! Woohoo! I was so happy by this! I am going to try now to upload this to my Youtube channel ChromeCalvin and then post it in the draft on the course page on here.
Well that really sums it up. The three big things are: Continuing researching Flow and the draft videos for my course, and organizing the blog posts on my page.
Have a great weekend!
-Calvin
Here’s a link to my notes on the wikipedia article: Flow Notes #1 - Wiki Article
