Becoming Antifragile
Becoming Antifragile
IJ Makan
010: How To Unlock The Secret To Happiness - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
53 minutes Posted Jan 7, 2024 at 11:26 am.
What is flow?
Why you want flow states in your life?
Psychic entropy
Industrial revolution and the desire for leisure time
The difference in work styles of the West and tribes
Workaholic vs. craftsman
Happiness requires flow states
Do activities that give you purpose and dream big
Why having a goal is a perquisite for achieving flow
Don’t let genetics or environment determine your life
Meditation as an example of getting into flow
The opposite of flow is hell
Active vs. passive leisure activities
The killer of flow states & embracing solitude to increase your capacity for flow
Autotelic individual and doing work that decreases entropy
Challenges
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Lessons from Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He was a professor of psychology and education at the University of Chicago, and he's the author of the bestselling Flow.
Finding Flow is a guide to reclaiming ownership of our lives. And a call to dedicate our lives to increasing our capacity for flow states through complete engagement to achieve higher satisfaction levels.
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IJ Makan is a philosopher, designer, and martial artist.
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