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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow
- thristian 17y agoAs a coder and some-time Tetris player, I'm always trying to get back to that state of awesome productivity called "flow". I always thought it was something that just randomly happened, or might be easier to access if you set up the right environment and waved a chicken about, but apparently there's more to it than that. The most useful slide of the entire presentation is also on the man's Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Challenge_vs_skill.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Challenge_vs_skill.jpg I think I'll need to stare at it for a while longer and think about how those emotional states relate and how I might artificially jump from one to the next.
- teamonkey 17y agoHis book is really worth reading. I suspect his editor wanted it to be a self-help book and sometimes it reads that way, but it's strongly based on years of observations and collected evidence. http://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Mihaly-Csikszentmihalyi/dp/0060920432 http://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Mihaly-Csik...