Flow – Psychology of Optimal Experience

THE FLOW OF THOUGHT ■ 131 find at least a line, or a verse, that starts to sing. Sometimes even one word is enough to open a win ...

132 ■ FLOW Many have commented lately about the fact that poets and play­ wrights as a group show unusually severe symptoms of d ...

THE FLOW OF THOUGHT ■ 1 33 build what is in effect a museum of the life of the family, even though a chance visitor might be una ...

134 ■ FLOW unwillingly. If this is the case, history can do little to improve the quality of life. Knowledge that is seen to be ...

THE FLOW OF THOUGHT ■ 1 35 esoteric problems, the paradigm [or theoretical approach] forces scien­ tists to investigate some par ...

136 ■ FLOW won the Nobel prize for physics. Whenever this story used to be told, the narrator concluded with sympathetic regrets ...

THE FLOW OF THOUGHT ■ 137 major discoveries soon after he received his B.A. at Cambridge, in 1665, when the university was close ...

138 ■ FLOW scientists than one would think. Some focus their interest on health, and try to find out everything they can about a ...

THE FLOW OF THOUGHT ■ 1 39 As in all other branches of learning, the first step after deciding what area one wants to pursue is ...

140 ■ FLOW variety of activities, taking as much enjoyment as possible from each without necessarily becoming an expert in any o ...

THE FLOW OF THOUGHT ■ 141 grains planted in a cold climate would grow more hardy, and produce even hardier progeny, sounded good ...

142 ■ FLOW cally. At that point the goal of studying is no longer to make the grade, earn a diploma, and find a good job. Rather ...

WORK AS FLOW Like other animals, we must spend a large part of our existence making a living: calories needed to fuel the body d ...

144 ■ FLOW learn new things every day, and every day he learns that he is in control and that he can perform difficult tasks. Th ...

WORK AS FLOW ■ 145 With all due respect to the Bible, however, it does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unp ...

146 • FLOW threatened Uncle Andrew during the freak snowstorm of ’24. When Serafina was asked what she enjoys doing most in life ...

WORK AS FLOW ■ 147 Life in this Alpine village has never been easy. To survive from day to day each person had to master a very ...

148 ■ FLOW of the hierarchy in the plant, everyone knew Joe, and everyone agreed that he was the most important person in the en ...

WORK AS FLOW ■ 149 trum to form rainbows, and installed them inconspicuously around the sprinklers. Now he was really ready. Eve ...

150 ■ FLOW One of the most interesting examples of how the phenomenon of flow appeared to thinkers of earlier times is the conce ...