Amazing book
Wonderful guide
"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."
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience | 
so-soUnpopular opinion, but I found this book very disappointing. I have known about flow for about 20 years, but had never read this classic book. I found the vast majority of it boring and full of lazy generalizations that aren‘t necessarily backed up by research. Too bad.
Activity and reflection should ideally complement and support each other. Action by itself is blind, reflection impotent. Before investing great amounts of energy in a goal, it pays to raise the fundamental questions:
Is this something I really want to do? Is this something I enjoy doing? Am I likely to enjoy it in the foreseeable future? Is the price that I - and others - will have to pay worth it?
We must constantly reevaluate what we do, lest habits and past wisdom blind us to new possibilities
@Mitch #50Kreadinglifegiveaway here is my composed sentence of how I see my reading life (not that it‘s exactly 5 words per-say but it is how I feel about my reading life 😋📖)
Flows-easily with fantastic adventures and learning.
pick"Flow is important both because it makes the present instant more enjoyable, and because it builds the self confidence that allows us to develop skills and make significant contributions to humankind."
Each page of this book gives you enough thoughts to ponder on for a week.
To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.
"however well-intentioned, books cannot give recipes for how to be happy... whether we are happy depends on inner harmony."
