[Jewelry making - Article 00364] - Re: [Orchid] Concentration and productivity

[Joel Elfman]

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    I asked a couple of people I know if they knew of any research on
    this subject.  And only one person vaugely remembered a paper they
    had seen which said while music was a help, at a certain point it
    could also intefere w/ getting into a focused state. 

    A couple of folks I asked thought they the music might serve to
    perhaps fill the place where we normally have internal dialouge. 
    Which prompts the question.  When you are in flow working on your
    piece are you aware of the music or TV/radio chatter? or do you
    ignore the outside noise at a certain point? 

    For me personally, I can't have any sounds around while I am
    concentrating and getting into the "flow" state, but I am not sure
    once I am there how music would intefer that much.  Probably depends
    on the volume and the type of music. 

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi talks about a study where they found those
    best able to stay in flow were best able to ignore outside
    distractions.  Since, I sometimes consider "flow" a trance
    phenomenon, anything that breaks trance like loud music/noise or
    music/sound that has odd rhythms could potentially be distracting. 

    Flow/trance depending on what you are doing can either be directed
    at something outside your body like a piece of jewelry in front of
    you or something inside your head like designing a piece or writing
    a poem.  Either way, like most other things, supposedly the more you
    practice maintaining flow the easier it theoretically becomes to
    maintain and to ignore outside distractions. 

    Flow is also a constantly changing state.  It is said there have to
    be rules, a goal, and a way of obtaining feedback.  And if so,
    perhaps part of the challenge can be to break up your project into
    simpler and more discrete tasks/steps so it can become easier to
    stay in flow.  If the task is too easy we get bored, too complex and
    we get frustrated.  It can often be a narrow band, we attempt to
    stay in. 

    I'm going to see if I can ask some more questions or do some more
    research as time permits and explore this some more.  It is a
    fascinating subject to me. 

    And since flow can occur in any task, may you all find some of part
    of your day in FLOW. 

Joel

 

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