Right now i try to explore something. The discussion on this blog about the “flow” lead me to the following thought: maybe you can use the flow to carry your motivation for work? The flow seems to come “coincidentely” while working, but on the other hand if you don’t start working, there will be no flow! Can it be that easy? The emphasis therefore has to be upon “start working”, rather than “work”.

I had to work on a paper and i really could not start the work. The work involved reading a book about an autor. I surely did know something about that topic, but not enought to directly start writing. I said to myself: “Alright, i will read this book (from begin till end) and then start writing. But i couldn’t read more than 5 pages at a time, because i knowed too much about this autor to continue linear reading. It was too boring. How can i solve this problem? I found two things to ease work.

1. Moritz Sauer held an Interview with designer, illustrator and artist Matt Curry. There he says about his progress of working, that he starts somewhere freely, then he witnesses the things that happen and the thing is developing out of this flow.

2. John Maeda describes his third law of simplicity:
“When the richness of an experience
is increased in a manner that facilitates
the perception of the overall intent,
by all means don’t skimp—add more!”

Now this is helping me out doing this paper. I have to skip the linear reading mode and replace it with “what you see is what you get” reading while at the same time start writing. This text here also started out as an experiment. At the beginning i had a very unconcious thought about ‘the flow’ and now i have two refereces and one example.