Posted by Michael83 on May 25, 2006, at 23:32:49
In reply to Flow? » Michael83, posted by pseudoname on May 25, 2006, at 15:45:02
Very much like that! I hope many people here suffering as I have can find something to submerse themselves in that will bring them happiness and erase the constant bad thoughts.
This is what lifts me from the bad thoughts and fears. It really works. It's not always easy. Sometimes I just cannot get any traction with something that motivates me, but in the end, it's what saves me.
Sometimes I just need to tell myself, "Quit worrying and live life!" Not always easy to convince myself of that, but it works a lot of times.
> Hi, Michael.
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> What you're describing sounds like Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow: the psychology of optimal experience" (1990). It's about things that you lose yourself in, things that are worth doing not for their outcomes but for the sake of doing them. Things that are “intrinsically motivating.” Is that it?
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