Flow (Summary) - How To Reliably Trigger the State of Optimal Performance & Achieve Your Goals

This is a summary of the book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
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0:00 - Introduction
1:19 - Lesson 1: Pleasure and enjoyment are not the same thing.
2:24 - Lesson 2: Flow is the state where challenges and skills match, so that time flies by.
4:22 - Lesson 3: Life goals are irrelevant, so set a life goal.
Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life.
In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi ("the leading researcher into ‘flow states’" -Newsweek) demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience teaches how, by ordering the information that enters our consciousness, we can discover true happiness, unlock our potential, and greatly improve the quality of our lives.
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[@johnjordaan7306]

Very nice. I was aware of this concept and now recognize it as "flow". I will surely read the book. For me, Flow is listening to music and playing the drums, I've enjoyed these for 20+ years.

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[@hsbdkdndn]

You pronounced the author's name perfectly (I'm Hungarian)

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[@ML-py4rt]

Thank you sir! Keep em coming.

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Always!

[@hypcro]

0:58: 📚 The book 'Flow' by Mihai Cheek explores the concept of finding true happiness by creating your own meaning in life. 2:16: ! True happiness lies in finding enjoyment and working towards important goals beyond genetic limitations. 4:27: 🎯 Setting an ultimate life goal that brings you into flow is more important than adhering to traditional life goals. Recap by Tammy AI

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[@SD-oj2yr]

"A Joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe." I get it, everyone's path is different but, Nietzsche talks about this experience, as does Jung detailing Nietzsche's experience. This man obviously copied some recipe by taking this theory from those before him and just named it something else, something more hip and understandable to the masses. And Nietzsche took it from the Ancient Greeks! The Idea of Ecstasis, Dionysian Ecstasis. "The Greek term ecstasis (meaning “to stand outside oneself”) is the etymological mother of our English words ecstasy and ecstatic. Ecstasis (also spelt ekstasis) is a moment of insight; it is a moment of total immersion in being." In fact Nietzsche even shows the recipe: BGE 188 "... Obedience in one direction for a long time always reveals something worth living for ..." that obedience becomes the Burden for the camel in the first stage of The Three Metamorphoses of the Spirit which he details in metaphor in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Amor Fati (GS 276). And then we have this about Nietzsche "In one of his letters to his sister he gives a most impressive description of the ekstasis in which he wrote Zarathustra The wistful little poem that Nietzsche wrote some time between 1882 and 1884 deserves citation in full: Sils-Maria I sat there waiting, waiting-not for anything. Beyond good and evil, enjoying soon the light, Soon the shade, now only play, now The lake, now the noon, wholly time "without end. Then suddenly, friend, one became two-- And Zarathustra passed by me. There are four parts in the book, and each of the first three parts was written within ten days, which is rather remarkable. The first was written on the Riviera, the second in the Sils Maria in the Engadine, and the third again on the Riviera; the fourth was written in different places and took longer. He says about his way of writing that it simply poured out of him, it was an almost autonomous production; with unfailing certainty the words presented themselves, and the whole description gives us the impression of the quite extraordinary condition in which he must have been, a condition of possession where he himself practically no longer existed."

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