In the old days you could have a creative idea but no one listened. But productivity is higher than in the old days. Scrum fosters interaction between the team member, which indeed causes a lot of interruptions. This is strange, knowing that according to the theory an introvert should react the opposite way. As many other developers nowadays, I am a Scrum enthusiast and would not even think about going back to the old days of working ‘alone’. A Scrum team is really much like the new groupthink. A part of the answer is absence of flow.īut, as software developer I started to work in Scrum teams several years ago. This is covered in the chapter ‘How collaboration kills creativity’ in Suzan’s ‘Quiet’. There is another aspect of flow that I would like to discuss. What I would like to know when David Allen tells us about flow and ‘mind like water’, does he really mean that we should go for doing things in long flows? When I did ‘my experiment’, I wanted to know what happens when doing something in one long big flow. This is exactly what I would like to know more about. These ideas are not consistent with the theory of flow. Matt McGarrity also shows how to prepare a speech in several iterations in his MOOC-courses on public speaking. This is consistent what is often said to pupils who wish to learn to play a music instrument: ‘practice frequently but not too long each time’. It is in these intense sessions that the best most creative work of implementing new features, designing new database tables and queries, and fixing particularly thorny bugs tends to happen.Ĭlick to expand. I can be working on something and only after several hours do I surface long enough for the external environment to intrude. Yes, I often get into the flow, coding is one task that generally does need that fully engaged mind state and when I am really rocking the code I don't even realize when I am thirsty, need to use the restroom nor do I hear anything around me even my husband talking to me or the phone ringing. Look for places to get into the flow mindset for shorter periods of time. My idea on a better experiment is not to do such a large project or task that it takes the entire day. Flow by necessity means ignoring other tasks because you have decided that what you are working on is the most important thing to be doing right now. I think you expect flow to come while still allowing for interruptions and IMO those are mutually exclusive things. Why do you need to do self-reflection when you are trying to get a speech written? Why do you need to interact with people when they break your train of thought? I'm with most of the other posters, what you cite as disadvantages I see as advantages of the flow state. What did I do wrong? How can I do a better experiment? Do you have experiences with the flow state?įor the rest, I really enjoy the GTD-method in my daily life. Increased introvert behavior (due to high focus on one task and prevention of interruption), I experienced difficulties with both speaking and listening.Īs a conclusion: I experienced the flow state as far from optimal. Reduced self-reflection (due to chasing one goal), which can easily lead to tunnel vision Chasing one single clear goal, having a challenging task and the absence of interruption made it indeed easy to reach the flow state for me.īut I perceived also some serious disadvantages: In other words, I did it in ‘one single flow’. I started on a Sunday morning and stopped during this day when the preparation of the speech was completely done. The idea of my experiment was to prepare a speech, while being in the flow state. The idea of flow is comparable with the idea of mind like waterĪs the idea of flow promises an optimal performance, I decided to do an experiment. Flow is a mental state in which a person performs optimally and is completely absorbed by his or her activities In chapter 14, David Allen explains the ‘Flow Theory’. I am struggling with one specific subject mentioned in the GTD book.
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