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December 18th, 2008 
QuadsZilla From Ted Talks, here’ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow:
And One of the key slides from the presentation:
Flow can only happen to someone who is very well trained and has evolved technique. Then, the activity must be sufficiently challenging to utilize those skills.
Have you experienced flow? What were you doing when it happened?
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I crave flow. One of the most important reasons to live. I experience it when programming, gaming, performing music, sometimes when public speaking, when writing… flow is the greatest feeling and the most productive state of being. They should teach kids about it in school.
Drumming. Work… sometimes – depends on how many distractions. Now I think about it though, it happens all the time for me, any many different situations. Possibly not a good thing… maybe I’m doing way too many things I love to get stuck in to and keeping my head in the sand to others stuff.
[...] Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. It was enthusiasm that enabled Napoleon to make a campaign in two weeks that would have taken another a year to accomplish. It is the secret and harmonious spirit that hovers over the production of genius. If you want to experience flow, you need enthusiasm. [...]