[zdo]

“Flow thyself”
For traders, what is the ‘state of the art’?

[zdo]

YouTube - Enroll Yourself in the Genius Factory

YouTube - Enroll Yourself in the Genius Factory

[zdo]

My impressions of that Tube:
Noted a conspicuous absence of content about the importance of intrinsic interest, drive, passion, for an activity… maybe that’s so obvious it doesn’t need mention for most…

...And I see what they are getting at with the whole ‘talent is overrated’ theme. On many levels, one could say the talent IS the passion for it instead of the innate capacities to build skills...
But I also think they may be discounting talent ( as defined above - finer innate capacities to build skills) just a little bit too much. For example, in the piece one of the coaches said something to the effect of “let me work with the weakest quarterback…and I’ll show you that talent is overrated”. Don’t they realize that ‘worst guy in camp’ still has more native QB talent than 99% of the humans on the planet?

[DugDug]

yep - no matter how hard I try I will never run the 100 in a quick time - genetics has a certain amount of say. Those talent schools do take the best - its a bit like survivor ship bias.

However everyone can certainly improve with any sort of muscle/brain training and a good coach - absolutely no doubt.

(Zdo - are you going to start a thread called "touch yourself" next - i reckon you will get a lot of takers for that one)

[zdo]

Originally Posted by DugDug »

(Zdo - are you going to start a thread called "touch yourself" next - i reckon you will get a lot of takers for that one)

LOL you're killing me
Coming to a forum near you
Touch yourself
What is the state of the art for traders?

It was mostly to show fxGirl how easy it is to start a thread.

Separating them will just result in a different kind of mess than the usual messes we make

Actually, while they all go together, there are important distinctions...

[zdo]

Flow
One is either in Flow or in bound-flow
While there are gradients to Bound flow
The transition between flow and bound-flow is a discrete quanta…

[minoo]

Zdo I very much like the topic of this thread,
Hope the below puts some substance to it

A Little Book of Flow
Life 2.0: The little book of Flow - revised

This is the best stuff I have ever read on Web
It has help me so much in pre-trading preparation of ThySelf

Here is the printer friendly version to download and save
Life 2.0

Enjoy Minoo

[FXGirl]

Zdo: Thanks for the link to Like 2.0: The little book of Flow. Lots of great ideas in this gem. One of the few places where I would use a slightly different approach is in dealing with thoughts or the intellect. "It's thought that creates the doubts and fears, that blocks our natural ability to learn and accomplish," is what the author says. I'd much rather see the intellect (and the ego, for that matter) as a valued junior partner. Under the guidance of the Self, the power of the intellect is an amazing thing. And after all, both the ego and the intellect have their places in the scheme of things. I'd like to just view their shenanigans with love and affection.