[214] [Case Study 2] When you are absorbed in something, your mind is lighter than when you are resting. Reading about Torihara-san, who published a manga for the first time in 25 years, and her "lowest friction in personal history" via mck

This is an attempt to visualize invisible mental movements and unravel the fluctuations of the heart through
"structure" and "logic."

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Absorption is a state where the mind's fuel efficiency improves

This is Koguma Papa.

When you are immersed in something, when you are
absorbed, how does your mind fluctuate?

Don't you want to see it?

It is not a state of forcing yourself, but a state where things "naturally fall into place."

It is a state where your mental fuel efficiency improves, and you are moving deeply with focus and minimal friction.

When we were children, it was easier to get absorbed in things.

But as we become adults, our obligations, responsibilities, and roles increase. Perhaps we have simply forgotten the entrance to that state of absorption.

Pursuing absorption is not just about finding what you like. It is about knowing the true performance of your own mind, using it to the fullest, and

The feeling of being alive. The feeling of using yourself. A feeling close to being in the zone or flow.

I believe it is about finding the operating conditions of your mind to get closer to that sensation.

Even for the same person, there is not just one way the mind moves.

The public self. The private self. The absorbed self. ......

The ability to explain the differences in those mental fluctuations through numbers, logic, and structure is what the
mck diagnosis is.

The introduction has been long, but the case study of mental fluctuations this time, continuing from last time, is
Torihara-san. Torihara-san debuted professionally as a shojo manga artist in her 20s and had been away from manga for a long time since then. This time, Torihara-san completed and published a manga for the first time in 25 years. ▼ Click here for Torihara-san's article

In the previous article, we analyzed Torihara-san's "public" and "private" emotional fluctuations using both numerical data and personal experience.

Summary up to the last time: In public, things are orderly. In private, things feel heavy.

Torihara-san is someone who
is orderly in public. In front of others, she does not let her emotions run wild, she checks things, and she can act within her role.
is heavy in private. On the other hand, when she returns home, she finds it difficult to get moving based solely on promises to herself.

And those mck diagnostic values matched Torihara-san's own experience surprisingly well.
That is the content up to the last time.

Now, how did her heart move when Torihara-san was working on her manga?
This is the main topic for today.

Regarding drawing manga, Torihara-san said,
It's fun to draw now.
It's like I've returned to my teens.
That is what she told me.

Today, we will look at Torihara-san's mck during moments of absorption.
In Torihara-san's case, when she was working on her manga, her mental operation had changed.

When she turned to manga, her mental operation changed

mck during absorption—m drops, c remains, and k turns toward the work

Torihara-san's mck during absorption was as follows.

When working on manga.
m = 2.50
c = 4.13
k = 3.00
The type is Type 2: Willow in the Wind.

First, regarding m.
Public is 2.70.
Private is 3.40.
m during absorption is 2.50.

Torihara-san's m when working on manga is
even lighter than in public, and clearly lighter than in private.
The starting resistance has clearly decreased.

I believe there was a structure here that Torihara-san herself had been struggling with for a long time.
Resting does not mean you can move.
Having time does not mean you can start.
It is hard to get motivated by promises to yourself alone.
But when she connects to manga, m drops to 2.50.
What Torihara-san needed was not to get more fired up, nor was it to rest more.
I believe it was about having an entrance to enter a state of absorption.

Next is c.
Public is 4.75.
Private is 4.00.
The c during absorption is 4.13.

The c during absorption was not as high as in public, and
it was a slightly higher value than in private.
This state can be read as
not being tense and keeping one's heart in check like in a workplace,
but also not being completely relaxed and unraveled at home.
a state where the power to keep one's heart in check remains just right for creation.

Even with the same "power to keep one's heart in check (c)", the way it is used differs for Torihara-san.
In public, it shifts from a state of "desperately hitting the brakes to avoid breaking down" to a state during absorption where it "naturally settles" in order to give shape to the work.

Next is k.
Public is 3.50.
Private is 2.50.
k during absorption is 3.00.

The k during absorption is not as high as in public, but it is a higher value than in private.
When Torihara-san turns to manga, her ability to pick up on inconsistencies in the work increases.
However, it is not a sensitivity directed toward others like in public, but a sensitivity directed toward the work that increases.
This scene is a little different.
This flow is still weak.
I want to define this expression a little more.
I want to properly bring out this atmosphere.
If I show it this way, the reader might perceive it like this.

The k during absorption was not a blade that cuts oneself, but a blade that polishes the work.

The friction coefficient during absorption became the "lowest" in her personal history

And today, the most noteworthy value is the Absorption Friction Coefficient (m×k÷c).
The lower this number, the less internal friction in the mind.
Torihara-san's Absorption Friction Coefficient was as follows.

Public was 1.99.
Private was 2.13.
When absorbed, it was 1.82.
When absorbed, it was the lowest.
When working on manga, Torihara-san's mind was in the lowest internal friction state in her personal history.

Absorption is a state where the mind connects to an object and internal friction decreases.

I see this as a law of the mind.

The decrease in the Absorption Friction Coefficient is not a coincidence.
Nor is it a special reaction that only happened to Torihara-san.

Absorption is a state where the mind connects to an object and internal friction decreases.

Our minds are constantly influenced by the forces of
m (inertia),
c (tuning), and
k (restoration).
And when you become absorbed in something, the direction of your mental force changes.

m decreases. The heaviness of starting to move becomes lighter.

k is directed toward the subject.
The power to pick up on discomfort is directed toward fixing the work, rather than toward self-blame or worrying about the evaluations of others.

c acts not as a brake to stop movement, but as a force that naturally adjusts things while you progress.
Therefore, the absorption friction coefficient (m×k÷c) decreases.

A low absorption friction coefficient means that
within that person's mind, mass (m), sensitivity (k), and calibration (c) are meshing together.
When absorbed, "noise" decreases, and one enters a state of extremely clear mental movement.

Moku-moku work sessions were a design for an entrance to absorption

The moku-moku work session has become synonymous with Torihara-san.
Torihara-san held moku-moku work sessions almost every day in April.
They are still being held actively today.

Work for at least one hour a day.
Through that accumulation, the manga progressed toward completion.

I do not view these moku-moku work sessions as merely securing work time.

This was a design for an entrance to absorption.
For Torihara-san in private, m = 3.40 (high).
When she relaxes, the start of movement becomes heavy.
It becomes difficult to get fired up with just a promise to oneself.
It is heavy to try to start the engine every time with just one's own willpower.

In other words, in private, the ignition device is easily detached.

Therefore, Torihara-san created an ignition device herself.
I believe that was the moku-moku work session.

A moku-moku work session is not a strong external pressure like the public sphere.
It is not a place where you get scolded.
It is not a place where you are evaluated.
It is not a place where your work is judged.

But it is not completely private either.
There is time.
There is a space.
Someone is there.
There is a reason to start.
This light external structure served as an entrance to absorption.

It is not as tense as the public sphere.
It is not as completely relaxed and unraveled as the private sphere.
She created a place in between where it is easy to get fired up.

And once you connect to the manga, the m during absorption drops to 2.50.
In private, m = 3.40.
During absorption, m = 2.50.
In other words, once you get past the initial ignition, the mind becomes lighter after entering the manga.
I believe the moku-moku work session was a device to help with that initial ignition.

Torihara-san apparently used to have this feeling:
"It's somehow cheating to use other people's eyes or external pressure to move."
I can't start by myself.
I can't move without external force.
If I don't have plans, I can sleep until 11 o'clock without a care.
But I have never been late for a part-time job shift.
It's not that I can't do it.
Yet, when it comes to things for myself, I can't move.

Torihara-san was always hung up on that.
But as she looked at the performance of her own mind, Torihara-san's perception changed.
"If it's a machine that's hard to handle, I should just pilot it accordingly."

"I am cheating for using external force"
instead of that,
"I am understanding my own machine by being able to design external forces."
That is how it changed.

Instead of trying to erase the heaviness of private life with sheer willpower,
she creates an entrance on the premise that the heaviness exists.

Instead of waiting for absorption,
she prepares the conditions for entering absorption herself.

The moku-moku work session was an example of that.

Instead of "drawing when I feel like it,"
she first creates a "place to enter a state where I can draw."
Instead of continuing to hand-crank a heavy engine with willpower,
she creates a place where it is easy to ignite.
When she connects to the manga beyond that,
m decreases,
c remains,
and k is directed toward the discomfort in the work.
The mental friction (absorption friction coefficient) decreases, and the work progresses to completion.

Absorption is not something that falls from the sky by chance.
The entrance can be designed.
I believe Torihara-san's moku-moku work session demonstrated that.

Next time—Even if you can draw while absorbed, your mind becomes clouded the moment you put it out into the world

Torihara-san's story of pursuing what she is absorbed in did not end here.

In mck during moments of absorption, I could see the way her mind operated when she was working on her manga.
The friction of the mind (coefficient of absorption friction) decreased, her hands moved, and the work began to take shape.

However, manga is not finished just by drawing it.
Completion approaches.
Showing it to others.
Releasing it to the world.
Just before that, other words emerged from within Torihara-san.
'I might be the only one who thinks this is interesting.'
'From an objective perspective, it might be cliché.'
The sensitivity (k) that should have been directed toward the manga began to turn not toward the work, but toward doubting herself.
Behind that lay memories from her twenties.

When she was drawing as a shojo manga artist,
words said to her by an editor.
'

Readers can't understand manga that deeply, so just draw something that looks like it '

Instead of drawing what she herself found interesting,
she drew things that looked the part.
Instead of steering the wheel based on the feeling of 'this is it' within her,
she steered the wheel to match external correct answers.
In her twenties, the steering wheel of 'interesting' that Torihara-san held might have been taken away once.
Publishing a manga for the first time in 25 years.
What was lost with those words.
And the process of grabbing the steering wheel of her own 'interesting' once again.
In the next article, we will move toward that.

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