On being drunk, without being drunk
Physicist Sean Carroll and sinologist Edward Slingerland talk about the relationship between Western and Chinese philosophy, their differences and similarities.
"Particularly, they discuss wu wei, or “effortless action” — the way that true mastery consists of doing things without too much conscious control.
Today we would call it “flow” or “being in the zone,” but the idea stretches back quite a ways."
Here the links to their respective internet sites, where both Edward Slingerland and Sean Carroll introduce this podcast episode:
See also Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi speaking about the so-called flow state, in his 2004 TedTalk titled Flow, the secret to happiness:
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