"Life isn't about quotes about life."

I don't "stay" happy, but I remind myself how special it is to experience happiness, so I can make the most of that particular moment

"While scrolling KZfaq." "Feel like you are in the driver seat." -Watches videos that give you an existential crisis.

1. Don’t take anything personally 2. Don’t make assumptions 3. Always try your best 4. Be impeccable with your word - Toltec wisdom

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I like how the ad audio was way louder than the video

Stop caring so much about things that aren't actually important to you. Don't let people make you feel distressed because for some of those people it is the goal to make you uncomfortable. Just live in the moment and don't get stressed by little things. That is how i stay happy.

We used to call it being "in the zone"... You can't stay in it all the time, or even every tie, but it feels great while you are there. Runners, basketballers, musicians, even racecar drivers all talk about the same experience where time slows and perception switches to ultra-mode. The same thing happens with philosophers and writers. I like to think it is something we as humans have evolved to do... mentally get into that space.

You gonna tell Grimace how to live stick boy

Having ADHD is like living a life of either being indefinitely trapped in the flow state or being completely unmotivated. Whatever interests us automatically places us into that state and self control isn't as easy since the ADHD brain is disabled in that area.

Don't take yourself or the world too seriously.

Honestly, for some reason what I find nostalgic for myself as memorable experiences are a bunch of absurdly minor things. Like for some reason I remember me when I was 8 staring at a piece of wood and staring at the texture, grooves and looks of it and imagining some story around it. Don't know why, probably don't want to replicate staring at a piece of wood for 1 hour but for some reason I really nostalgically remember that happy moment, although it may have just been me using my 8 year old imagination to overcome boredom. Nowadays I think remembering stuff like this will be a lot more rare since it is a lot easier to scroll through some KZfaq when you are bored, instead of staring at a piece of wood for an hour.

Well then it's decided. I'm going to start writing and editing more. That puts me into the flow like nothing else. Thank you, Sisyphus.

Not related to the video: This thumbnail is really nice compared to your other ones :)

this is beautiful yet it kind of brings me down. Why must we spend the mayority of our lives doing things that we know dont bring us closer to some sort of peaceful mental State or whatever? I mean, f** we are knowingly following the routes of a system that doesnt encorauge us to try and experiencie the wonders of life, that are many. I escape day to day bullshit as much as i can, but i cant help to ask myself how is it that Nobody tries to present something better. Like we just accepted that this System is like this and nothing will ever change. We created it, we can as well modify it! La concha de la lora

Just wanted to add some timestamps to make it easier to digest the video's info! Hope it helps :) Flow 1:53 Pleasure 2:44 How can one find the right goals for themselves? How can this be achieved? 1. Challenge with Skill 4:38 2. Merging Focus & Action 5:16 3. Clear Goals & Feedback 5:38 4. Concentration 6:23 5. Paradox of Control 6:58 6. Loss of Self-Consciousness 7:50 7. Transformation of Time 8:29 Conclusion 9:22 Thx for the wonderful vid Sisyphus! This topic has been in my mind for a while, and I found that it confirmed some things for me. :)

As a freediver who got interested in Flow several years ago, I don’t think there is enjoyment in the moment of performing the activity, there is only the activity, your entire focus is there doing the thing. It is only after that you can return to yourself so to speak and experience enjoyment (hopefully).

Ngl playing volleyball was the closest thing i had to my flow but then my stupid back broke and now cant play, really miss that

I think there should be a balance between self-restraint and discipline, and carefree-ness and pleasantness. I went through a time to where I engaged with my hobbies militantly and after a few months it left me drained and burned out. I loosed my grip and let myself wander from pleasure to pleasure and things began to balance back out and my energy returned to me.

This was quite an impactful video. I am now off to do some hobbies for the sake of doing them.

This part about flow, you described racing for me, effortless effort, my mind at 100%, thinking about how to overtake, defend, where to place myself, and how to go faster, at the verge of total control loss, all of that while perfectly calm, and relaxed, experiencing this paradoxical state of mind truly is why I've been born

honestly i just love the sound of your voice, not even listening to your words anymore. I'm just overwhelmed after my girlfriend broke up with me and I just want to fall asleep listening to it can anybody recommend some music that would give off a feeling like this? it would really help

Yea, I did that with gaming for some years, becoming a top contender in my field for a time. Later I translated it into the flowstate of running and the meaningful activity of having a well though out lifting regime. After a while I got older and my body started declining its ability to follow the philosophy of self improvement year after year afer year. During all these years of spiritual discovery I had not earned money, and now I am nothing.

This is the secret to being good at something.

idk if this'll help anyone or not but imagine how people dealt with not enjoying their lives before they could literally search up a tutorial on youtube on how to do it. i think one important thing in life is figuring things out and learning that some things take time to figure out. i find that just being handed an explanation doesn't work, you really just have to figure out what makes you happy and work from there.

Funny you say doing the dishes, I work at McDonald’s and used to at wendys, doing dishes and cleaning was the ultimate flow state for me, when they would put me on cooking food, I would mess up this and that, I love my job for the fact my manager understood this and asked me while I was being trained elsewhere if I wanted to stay on dishes, yes, I love my job

Thanks for this video. I think almost everyone "knows" about the things you talked about, but you arranged everything so well it refreshes and strengthens the idea in us.

This video couldn't have come for me at a better time. Ty

Lovely analysis of finding what you feel makes you really live. Such a life-affirming process to discover your own creative process, for your projects and for how you engage with the world.

"Pleasure for one involves little regard for what we want to do. Dangerously it masks itself under the disguise of liberation." Had to pause to think about this, your completely right never thought of it that way. Horrifying that a lot of people seek it as a main goal

Mon ami you came just at the right time, I’ve been having some doubts about whether I enjoy the hobbies I have and how to balance them, this gives me a good staring point to find out what’s up, thanks mate.

I really needed this video, thanks!

This was really good. Such a useful perspective to have about how we may want to use our time.

The question I then have, is if flow activities make me feel so good and fulfilled, then how do you find enjoyment in moments that aren't in a flow state? For example, working.

"How to be happy" *DRUGS*

Hi Sisyphus55 I owe you a thank you, it’s Valentine’s Day. I’ve watched your videos for years and I think I’ve never skipped one when It comes on, always feel better after and think about my life. You have helped me feel like a better person or at least understand I have the tools to get there, thank you ❤️

I love coming back to this video, timeless

The hockey analogy was very Canadian of you haha. Loved the video!

Loved this video man, keep going because these are amazing

If you enjoy "wasting time" then is it really wasted?

Love this channel!!

watched this in 1.25 speed hehe - adhd struggle i guess ? anwyas amazing channel ! keep going

damn that first part really hit me the way i needed

Bruh keep that good work your videos are great

Do you plan on making a video guide on George Orwell and his theories of politics and exploitation of human nature? I just read 1984 and Animal farm so I would love it if you made a video :) up to you tho, you do what you enjoy :p

love ur videos man

The happiness hypothesis is my favorite book it teaches you why your happy and how you can arrange your life to maximize joy and it has a chapter on flow

This was REALLY REALLY good.

Free time isnt happiness, its part of happiness. Happiness stems from a balance between honest living, working, and personal enjoyment.

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies He don't know, so he chases them away

i am a student and i live with my (strict) parents. i wake up and eat and shower and use my phone and go to sleep. i am 23. i feel happy by reading books and watching movies and series.

the early days of doing a drug can feel like a shortcut to the flow state. but after a certain point, the enjoyment reaches its peak and then everything falls back to the flatline again. its better to find something that continuously tests u but rewards u with the time and effort and heart you put in. im by no means anti-drug entirely but its definitely something to have to be clear=minded about, not to get sucked too far into that mindset of wanting the next high until none of the highs feel that way any more. be kind to yourself and others, and stay safe out there yall

Thank you.

You have a very nice editing style and voice

Happy new year

Yes, good activities don't need to be justified by anything.

Cheese is epic

i see you really like the philosophy of flow! i think this is the 3rd or 4th vid in which you talk about it haha

Great video

Thank you for validating my addiction to competitive video games lol

i love this book yay

I don’t even think that’s possible for me I just see life as one big problem or an unnecessary hassle

I love how you put Hockey in these arguments hahaha

bravo!!!!

Still empty as hell

Thank you

ayo this channel is cool

This explains my experience with a good practice session so well.

Hey, it's that thing from "Soul" (2020)!

“Content creator tells me to stop watching his videos”

thank you

Sounds like I need to golf more. Wait I already knew that!

Every expression of opinion is an attempt to add to the vast cultural body of human experience. In other words, anything you do is an attempt to change social instruction. We cannot be free of it.

It feels good to be in a creative flow, and because it is creative work it can feel very meaningful and fulfilling, but I also want to make memories and savor time. Flow is too effortless and time goes by too fast. I enjoy the memorableness of surprises and discontinuities. I think engagement and feeling alive but also having more metacognition and being in a more learning and novelty remembering mode is what I prefer to flow.

Goku from dragon ball is the one who first showed me flow.

The harder you try to it, the harder it gets to be happy.

thanks

jokes on you I'm already happy

It's very interesting how similar flow psychology is to taoist philosophy. These are ideas that have existed for millennia but now it's backed by science.

morning my dude

This guy would love Rhythm games

Step 1. Dont overthink (basically be dumb)

If you live your life with the mindset that this moment of your life is the best you'll ever have and not expect the future to grant you more, then you may get to experience a feeling of consciousness of your surrounding and of the present. I call it，”as good as it gets". It is however inherently a bad mindset because this focuses on the principle that the future will be worse than the present which is untrue, because we can not know. In other ways believing the future will be good or bad is a fallacy, as you can not know. But through this mindset I manage to live horrible moments of my life believing that things can only get worse from now, which in many ways lets me find the positives of my experience. Just remember, You are solely responsible for your own happiness and meaning. However I must inform the readers that I do not believe living one's whole life with this mentality, but rather be an intermediary until you can get in a spot of your life where you are actively "living it".

all things I like I'm too shy to do when my parents are close :(

We are all hedonists who learn that short term pleasure can lead to long term suffering

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certain video games fill this role perfectly

If you want more neurological info about this, you can also search "optimal arousal theory" It's basically the same concept of entering a state of being aroused but not too aroused

?? the actual subject of the video had a very low audio quality but the sponsor part was loud

I do this thing where I say words that I relate to happiness, like I’ll say happy birthday randomly, does that have a name?

My kitten is watching this with me and looks like she is interested :o

Which track on the music channel you've linked in the description is the one used in the video?

Someone was told to make a video longer than 10 minutes, so he reads as slowly as he can.

I hope to meet ya one day.

Be right, be yourself, and don't give a f*ck.

Nice

I have a question if anyone would be kind enough to indulge me. I like the idea of meditation, constantly bringing yourself back to your breath and learning how to notice every passing emotion so you don't carried away in it. But isn't that very thing the opposite of being in a flow state? Sometimes I like being lost in my own world, but meditation seems to seek to bring me out of it so I'm can no longer be in flow. Thoughts?

Flow sounds like one way to have fun just like TV and nothing is ultimately pointfull anyway. And tv isn't memorably fun (always) but it is fun. Playing devil's advocate

lets go 1am mind fucky videos!

Bro the placing of the ad kills the video for me