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I've heard of flow before,...Flow: How action and awareness get things done By: Merlin Mann (34 replies) February 9, 2006 - 4:59am |
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I've heard of flow before,...
I’ve heard of flow before, but always dismissed it as an ideal, theoretical state people never experienced. I know (or knew) that I never had expereinced it.
Fast forward 5 or so years. On this blog, I read the 8 components of flow according to Csikszentmihalyi, and realise that I indeed have achieved flow at times - when playing videogames, the activity I gave up on years ago because it seemed so pointless to devote hours and hours to it.
Not fair - I want to be productive too… ;)