Ask HN: Skills that give you joy/flow
19 points by viginti_tres 3 years ago | 16 commentsI have some skills/hobbies like music and boxing, and these things give me joy/flow. What are the skills that give you joy/flow? (flow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology))
- smk_ 3 years agoI love this question. First and foremost, meditation. It definitely helps me be more present. Another skill that gives me joy is reading. I can concentratedly read for 2 hours, but after 2 hours I need to take a break. I can't think of any other activity that I can concentrate so long on. Ideally, I would become a scholar but I'm going into software engineering for now:)
- viginti_tres 3 years agoHow do you meditate?
- viginti_tres 3 years ago
- drakonka 3 years agoReading, writing, coding (usually debugging, once I have a consistent and smooth repro process), lifting.
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- dokem 3 years agoI've been painting some walls in my house recently. After getting over the short learning curve of making a mess everywhere I find it pretty therapeutic and meditative.
- starwind 3 years agoListening to music. Flying an airplane. Doing a hard workout. Building a Lego set. Fixing something with my hands. Cooking (trying not to cut off any more finger tips).
- amerkhalid 3 years agoCoding, video games, listening to music, painting.
And long time ago when I used to run, running.
- floppy-disk 3 years agoRefactoring legacy code.
- tekichan 3 years agoCoding, solving math problems on paper (equations and stuff)
- billconan 3 years agodrawing.
Thank you for sharing the wiki link, I learned something. I like drawing, it let me forget about other things for hours. I use it as a therapy for anxiety.
- amerkhalid 3 years agoSame here, drawing and painting is such relaxing activity for me. Much easier to do than meditation, at least, for me.
- amerkhalid 3 years ago
- AnimalMuppet 3 years agoUltimate frisbee is a "flow" kind of game.
- ambivalents 3 years agoBouldering, meditating, ping pong
- mikewarot 3 years agoMachining, making gears.
- dominotw 3 years agocoding, skiing.
- navyad 3 years agorunning
- viginti_tres 3 years agorunner's high is a real thing and it's such an ecstasy (I've never done real ecstasies)
- viginti_tres 3 years ago