Finding Water

I'm in Seattle. I'll stay a bit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

I have barely read the article. I have been considering flow for a long time. Yesterday I defined the keys for myself. If not the keys, then the keys to the keys.

 A present-minded willingness and confidence to create.

Present-minded to recognize that it is only now that anything that can happen, happens. I wish I could make you deeply understand how important this is to the human mind with regards to making any product. Until you intentionally cultivate this focus (unless you're still under the age of 6 or perhaps 10) you are always thinking by default. While you are thinking, you are not taking part in the world as it turns beneath your feet. You are talking with your projections and expectations as you think, all being a part of the mind that entertains them. While you're thinking you're playing with yourself. You are not focused on the resources you have in the real world, only imaginary ones. You have to give the moment your full attention, and then oddly enough, you lose it. Worrying or thinking robs your mind of precious mental space, space you are not willing to lose, space that cannot be lost.

Willingness because you recognize you haven't yet ever heard what you're about to create. So you're willing to hear something new. Willing to create something original. Something you couldn't have imagined you being capable of creating. Saying to yourself: "I couldn't do that" means you are staunching a small but important part of your psyche that would have otherwise allowed you to see what you're capable of, regardless of what you think that may be. That is to also say, "regardless of what others think that may be." You are more than your thoughts, more than what you think you are. So much more than what other people would allow you. Be willing to discover this. It also helps abate the surprise reaction from hearing something awesome, and stumbling. Be willing to express, discover, create. Be willing to make mistakes. Be willing to try again. Be willing to try it from a new angle. Be willing to push yourself. You cannot know what you need to do - be willing to receive it.

Confidence: Recognizing that you are not only capable, but also that anything that could stop you is now entirely in your hands. And you refuse to let anything stop you. Other brains can only speak, speaking as brains that haven't the slightest understanding of what you are. You are not here to show them, nor would their irrefutable praise to your glory help you in the slightest, so all insecurity (worrying for what you are relative to others) or pride becomes as useless as cash money to garden plants.You were always and still are the only brain that can actually stop you. And we all can do this very well. Confidence is caring not for what others think (they that can only judge), enjoying what you are so much that you are excited to experience it, and knowing:

That the world bends for the mind that would shape it.

In your willpower's absence, the world keeps turning. But if you actually put yourself out there? Yes, its unusual, foreign, uncertain but - The world responds. It bends to you. You bend to it. You aren't separate from the world. In a way you are still only changing yourself. But if you don't put it out there, create it, it will never be created. So your confidence is somehow a refusal to not try, to kill it before it could grow.

I'm going to go play my guitar. This is what I actually got from the article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autotelic
For those that still worry, I hope that helps you understand this better.
Greetings from a pretty city.