Ask HN: Skills that give you joy/flow • Hacker News Board

Listening 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).

Re: Ask HN: Skills that give you joy/flow

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Post by navyad » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 6:20 AM UTC

running

Re: Ask HN: Skills that give you joy/flow

#17

Post by viginti_tres » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 7:55 AM UTC

navyad wrote: post #16

running

runner's high is a real thing and it's such an ecstasy (I've never done real ecstasies)

Re: Ask HN: Skills that give you joy/flow

#18

Post by viginti_tres » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 7:56 AM UTC

smk_ wrote: post #2

I 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:)

How do you meditate?