I love good frameworks, models and maps.
I admire the ability of those who observe reality, see patterns and connections, and then transform those patterns into digestible frameworks that everyone else can see and apply.
However, I experience a paradox when I apply those frameworks and models myself. If I use them knowingly, following all the steps and directions, they seldom create the expected outcome. But if I look back to when I reached those desired outcomes spontaneously, I realise that I've been applying one of those frameworks unconsciously.
The experience of flow is a good example. After decades of studies and research, Professor Csikszentmihalyi created a beautiful and proven recipe to create flow. When I tried to engineer a state of flow in my life by following the recipe, it didn't work. However, I experienced flow many times, and all those times, the ingredients and steps identified by Csikszentmihalyi were there.
I may be the only one experiencing this, but I've understood that knowing, learning and experimenting with frameworks and models is essential. Not to get the outcomes for which they were designed but to become the person who can create those outcomes naturally. I experienced this over and over. It could be another pattern or framework; I don't know.
First, I learn about a model or framework (knowing), and then I practice long enough (doing) until that model or framework becomes second nature to me (being). Only then can I realise its full potential.