Saturday, April 23, 2005
Chick SENT me high
Don't panic! "Chick Sent me High is how to pronounce
Csikszentmihalyi , the author of
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, published in 1990.
How does it feel to be in 'the flow?
1. Completely involved, focused, concentrating - due to innate curiosity or as the result of training
2. Sense of ecstasy - of being outside everyday reality
3. Great inner clarity - knowing what needs to be done and how well it is going
4. Knowing the activity is doable - that the skills are adequate, and neither anxious or bored
5. Sense of serenity - no worries about self, feeling of growing beyond the boundaries of ego - afterwards feeling of transcending ego in ways not thought possible
6. Timeliness - thoroughly focused on present, don't notice time passing
7. Intrinsic motivation - whatever produces 'flow' becomes its own reward
Create vs. Destroy, Creative vs. Destructive. When contemplating the latter, flow to the former.
And since we like graphs
lecture synopsis :: Quotes from Csikszentmihalyi :: InterviewIn his article,
Finding the Zone (a Word Dcoument), Brett Steenbarger summarizes how a trader can self-check for being in "the zone":
Labels: attitude
At last, over the rim
of the waiting earth
the moon lifted with
slow majesty
till it swung clear of the horizon and rode off,
free of moorings
- Kenneth Grahame,
The Wind in the Willows
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