![]() ![]() It is the full involvement of flow, rather than happiness, that makes for excellence in life. Negative emotions create “psychic entropy” in the mind: states in which we cannot use attention effectively to deal with external tasks because we need to restore inner subjective order.Įxcellent diagram of Challenges vs Skills: Chapter 2 – The Content of ExperienceĪll emotions are essentially either positive/attractive or negative/repulsive. Work, maintenance, and leisure take up most of our psychic energy. Psychic energy: mental awareness/attention/focus a limited resource. Chapter 1 – The Structures of Everyday Life What follows in this post are my rough book notes. In an effort to read up more about flow-primarily the pros and cons, and how to achieve states of flow more often-I read Finding Flow by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (apparently it’s pronounced “chicks-send-me-high”), who first proposed the whole idea. I’ve experienced flow on many occasions, such as when I get “in the zone” and program for 8 hours straight, or when I get consumed reading about a topic I find particularly interesting for a solid day. Five hours may zip by and you hardly even notice. The idea of flow is popular in the online productivity, life-hacking blogosphere.īeing in a state of flow is when you’re fully immersed in a specific task with a seemingly inexhaustible amount of focus.
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