Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyiamazon.com
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
What we call happiness or ecstasy is, to me, creative thinking. And creative thinking is the infinite movement of thought, emotion, and action. That is, when thought, which is emotion, which is action itself, is unimpeded in its movement, is not compelled or influenced or bound by an idea, and does not proceed from the background of tradition or ha... See more
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
People who experience flow describe it as “a state of effortless concentration so deep that they lose their sense of time, of themselves, of their problems,” and their descriptions of the joy of that state are so compelling that Csikszentmihalyi has called it an “optimal experience.” Many activities can induce a sense of flow, from painting to raci
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Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act.