Big Five Personality and Flow States
You get to pick a new career based on one factor: Your job is to do the activity that most frequently puts you into a flow state.
Flow state = you feel fully immersed in your work, you're in "the zone," time flies by without you realizing it, etc.
What do you choose?
Flow state = you feel fully immersed in your work, you're in "the zone," time flies by without you realizing it, etc.
What do you choose?
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Bending reality feels almost magical. Everything seems to “click.” You’re working, but it doesn’t feel like work because you love what you’re doing. When I’m in this state, I almost feel as if work doesn’t exist. Plus, intuition and insights seem to come easily, out of the blue. Maybe this is because your mind is focused so intensely on your vision
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MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI Every single book from Mihaly expanded my perspective on what it takes to live an enjoyable life. He is the pioneer of the “flow” philosophy. If you want a starting point for reversing “psychic entropy,” read his book Flow.
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You may remember Schopenhauer’s image of the x=y diagonal that shows how we truly navigate life. This graph conceit echoes that of the modern sociologist Mike Csikszentmihalyi. From his extensive discussions with people from all walks of life, he discovered there is a state of ‘flow’: a ‘prime state’ that brings together the chess player, the surfe
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