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Most people encounter Apollo and Dionysus through Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, where they serve as shorthand for the duality between order and chaos, logic and feeling, the Apollonian dream and the Dionysian frenzy. Nietzsche argued that great art, and by extension great living, holds both without letting either win.
Flow is imagined as the repetition of meticulous accumulation of skills through practice followed by consistent conscious application when required. In reality, it is anything but. Flow is a transformation from deliberate conscious action towards what we know as autopilot mode. Skill at the highest level stops feeling like work because it no longer requires active management of every detail. In flow state, execution happens subconsciously.