“Contrary to what we usually believe, moments like these, the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage. For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
It’s 12: 29 PM on day 3002 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read the Bible and do some work
Yesterday after weeks of reading I finished reading Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi it’s a book that describes the state of Flow – basically that in-the-zone feeling when you’re doing something and everything else fades into the background – and how we can all achieve it. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience is by far the most intellectual book I’ve ever read so if you open this very interesting book best be prepared to concentrate for a sustained period of time.