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The reading I did as a child was well beyond what other children my age were reading, but it never required "effort," because it was pleasurable. It's a mistak
by araneae 17y ago
The reading I did as a child was well beyond what other children my age were reading, but it never required "effort," because it was pleasurable.
It's a mistake to think that activities which require no effort are useless.
- cynicalkane 17y agoThe most pleasurable things, in my experience, require great effort. You just don't notice because they're pleasurable.
- zackattack 17y agoWe can thank Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi for this idea. Flow is what you get when you intersect a properly challenging task with a properly adept skill-set, and it is immensely pleasurable.