From the library
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 1990
In one paragraph
Csikszentmihalyi explores the psychology of optimal experience and how to achieve the mental state of flow where people are fully immersed and energized.
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Key insights
Flow occurs where challenge and skill are both high and roughly matched. Too little challenge is boredom, too much is anxiety.
Clear goals and immediate feedback are the conditions. Most work fails to produce flow because it supplies neither.
People report their best experiences at work and their happiest ones at leisure, which is the finding most readers skip past.
Recognise it early
The failure and the correction sit side by side deliberately. Read the left column asking whether any of it is already true of you.
Seeking flow as an escape from responsibility
Over-challenging without skill development
Relying on external motivation instead of intrinsic
Forcing flow instead of creating conditions
Ignoring feedback that would improve performance
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The full breakdown
Before you close this
Naming the specific moment you will act roughly doubles the odds you do.
Reference
- Author
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Published
- 1990
- Category
- Self-Help
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