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You should read the book "Flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, titled: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. He claims that Flow is (more easily) achieved w
by tiku 8y ago
You should read the book "Flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, titled: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.
He claims that Flow is (more easily) achieved when Skill level and Challenge level are both very high.
- DisruptiveDave 8y agoAdded to the list, thanks.
- HuShifang 8y agoA bit more of a deep dive, but stuff on Daoism (esp. Zhuangzi) might be a nice complement too -- it influenced Zen (or Chan, as it was called in its original Chinese form). And not coincidentally, Mihalyi's son Mark works mainly on Daoism at UC Berkeley.
- bumby 8y agoIf I remember correctly, it's not that the skill level needs to be high, but that the task has to be difficult enough to be challenging without being so difficult as to be daunting. So you can still reach a flow state as a low-skill person as long as you flirt with the limits to your own skill level without getting frustrated (i.e. being highly skilled is not necessarily a prerequisite to be fully engrossed and challenged).