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October 24, 2022 · 4 min read

👋 Hello friend,

💯 It will be an even better week now

🛫 Human error is to responsible for more than 75% of plane crashes. Therefore, in around 25% of cases (including a very small number of other causes), the system is to blame.

I don’t have statistics on the number of newsletters that never reach their intended destination, but yesterday it was definitely (!!!) a technical issue. 😉 If I know something, it is how to push buttons.

In order to give you a nice start into the week, it was intended to arrive (as always) to your evening program. So, I apologize if your Monday started off a little rocky. The week officially begins in 3 … 2 … 1 … 🚀

🌊 The hardest part is to even reach the flow

After a long time, I had the honor of getting to coach again. I thought to myself, it’s like riding a bike - been there, done that. 🚴‍♂️

Yeah, well, wrong. 👎

It reminded me a bit of this graph.

Graph showing difficulty curve before reaching flow state

I have to endure an uncomfortable ride up the mountain in the beginning. After the struggle - release will come. But when? ⏲

I just knew that I will not quit. Otherwise the whole damn mountain will await me again.

Mountain graph showing progress resets when quitting

🙇‍♀️ There are two ways: Divergent and convergent thinking

We have different modes of thinking.

📊 Convergent = analytical working towards a solution
🎨 Divergent = creative idea development

I believe to have heard that one should switch as little as possible between these two modes. And it makes total sense.

Lets take for example, writing.

🎨 First you collect ideas and inputs and write all of them down using the divergent thinking mode.

📊❗ However, once you start correcting typos in between (thus switching to the convergent mode) you quickly get out of flow.

I think I have experienced the same with coaching this weekend. I was switching modes back and forth searching for something ---

There’s nothing wrong with continuously working to improve yourself and your life as long as you’re not so fixated on the outcome.

Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Have a great rest of the week. 💌

xx Lukas

💎 My favourite Things - so many cool things this week

💻 Website If you want to read helpful short articles Medium is the right website. You can also follow me. 🏃‍♂️

🌐 Browser Extension Momentum is designed to focus on the essential (I have it for Chrome). Opening a new tab you can see a beautiful picture, the time and one thing you want to accomplish today.

🌐 Browser Extension If you are tired of pressing “accept cookies” on every web page, download I don’t care about cookies. It automatically accepts cookies for you.

📱 App Snipt I was totally searching for this podcast app. You can create your own snippets from a you like podcast + the best short snippets of the podcast have been picked out for you.

Obsidian: Just trying out this new note-taking app. You can link your different notes, visualize and structure them. Great to get an overview what you are working on and where to see similarities between topics.

Obsidian graph view showing connected notes as nodes