English 100
Andrew Kranzman
Evidence-Interpretation Chart:
Instructions
Choose 4-5 direct sentences from your substantive source and analyze them as shown in the
chart. A blank chart is included on the back of the page. Use a signal phrase, quotation marks,
and an in-text citation for each direct sentence.
Examples
Evidence
Textual Evidence/Quote
According to Dr. Hamilton who in his
research on flow has observed that, “… we
seem to be on an endless quest to rid
ourselves of a conscious awareness of our
selves, our egos, and their constant internal
chatter that separates us from the immediacy
of experience.”
Dr. Hamilton reports that, “Flow reminds us
of the profound difference between meeting
our expectations in social or material ways
versus exceeding our expectations in creative
ways and being able to attempt the
unexpected, reaching what lies beyond the
fingertips of our reach, the edge of our
capabilities.”
In researching the Facebook organization, Dr.
Hamilton discovered that its former president
Sean Parker who says, "How do we consume
as much of your time and conscious attention
as possible? … give you a little dopamine hit
every once in a while, because someone liked
or commented on a photo … that's going to
get you to contribute more content, and that's
going to get you... more likes and comments."
In describing the process of transcendence Dr. The brain is a remarkable piece of mental
Dr.
Interpretation
Analysis/Not Summary
As a human species we are drawn to activities
occurring in the present state-space having an
element of perceptual transcendence, a
phenomenon described by martial artist
practitioners in MMA, and professional
athletes in Football, where brain wave activity
is measured and recorded as relaxed such that
the athlete loses a sense of ego and becomes
one with their surroundings.
When “flow” state is triggered, it offers a
contrast between the benefits of participating
in realms of activity outside of ones where
creativity is expressed. This creativity is Correct
one
where offered is an opportunity for refiningExample
individual ability for exceeding previous
limits of capability.
Social media and any leisurely stimuli
offering the human brain a welcomed
distraction with the interconnectivity
paradigm as the internet where personal
datum such as photos or artwork is exposed
for public appraisal. Given the trend is
affirmative overtures of stimuli appraisal, our
brains receive a doe of the neurochemical
dopamine. This creates a cheap reward of
instant gratification that prevents a person
from entering a state of flow and self-
development.
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Hamilton says, “As a challenge calls on more
of our skills, we bring a greater focus on it.
More and more sensory information is pulled
into performing the task and less conscious
processing is available for other things.
Thanks to the bottleneck, we lose awareness
of what is going on around us, of how time is
moving, and even of our own thought
processes.”
In conclusion Dr. Hamilton reiterates the
connection between cognitive performance
and eliminating barriers to achieving
improvements in all domains of life when he
says, “… we each need to protect our own
bottleneck and perhaps turn down the digital
noise, to reduce the extent to which we
subject our attention to fractionation and
distraction … allow[ing] us for a moment to
remove ourselves from the endless barrage of
sensory inputs.”
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hardware that increases focus, and therefore
opportunities for refining ability to higher
level of mastery, when during the skills
acquisition process of honing an ability, the
experience is integrated into a person’s
unconscious mind producing the result of
improvement.
The thalamic component to skills acquisition
requires a defensive orientation toward
seemingly harmless distractions such as social
media because such stimuli it robs the brain
of proper focus through mediums of
unchallenging pastimes such as stroking a
screen for instant gratification. These types of
activities fail to match individual ability and
therefore offer no self-improvement through
the complex process of “flow”.
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