Thanks for posting that message.

Notwithstanding the motivational impact of the “beautiful, noticeable changes in one’s life”, that alone is not responsible for sticking with the training over the longer term. Another factor is that the training itself creates a sense of flow.

Flow – a term elaborated upon by Csíkszentmihályi – is the experience that happens when challenge and ability are optimally matched. My own experience is that the training does, eventually, lead to a sense of flow.

Flow did not occur in the first 10 to 20 training sessions. Rather, in the same way that a runner will not experience the runner’s high on their first ten runs, a certain amount of experience with the n-back training is needed before experiencing a pleasant sense of flow during the n-back training.

Do you remember the last time you lost track of time? That was flow.

Warm regards,
Shaun.