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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00:00- What is flow?
04:43 - Why you want flow states in your life?
06:20 - Psychic entropy
08:00 - Industrial revolution and the desire for leisure time
09:47 - The difference in work styles of the West and tribes
12:10 - Workaholic vs. craftsman
14:50 - Happiness requires flow states
16:25 - Do activities that give you purpose and dream big
19:10 - Why having a goal is a perquisite for achieving flow
20:25 - Don’t let genetics or environment determine your life
23:48 - Meditation as an example of getting into flow
27:00 - The opposite of flow is hell
30:15 - Active vs. passive leisure activities
41:02 - The killer of flow states & embracing solitude to increase your capacity for flow
46:00 - Autotelic individual and doing work that decreases entropy
51:05 - Challenges
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