Comments on: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Does Creativity Make You Happy?

By: Listen To Your Longings | First, Know What You Want

Listen To Your Longings | First, Know What You Want — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:50:23 +0000

[...] things bring me more pleasure than anything else, writing and drawing. Both put me in a state of flow — a kind of exquisite pleasure drug unlike anything else I’ve ever experienced. And it’s [...]

By: Listen To Your Longings | First, Know What You Want

Listen To Your Longings | First, Know What You Want — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:50:23 +0000

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What’s driving Mass Customization? Creativity. « Treehouselogic's Blog — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:48:35 +0000

[...] Csikszentmihalyi coined the term “creative flow,” which is defined as ‘an almost automatic, effortless, yet highly focused state of [...]

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From Choke to Flow: Breaking Down Your Creative Blocks - OCSEA — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:50:52 +0000

[...] involved in a task, feeling a sense of ecstasy and clarity, and losing your awareness of time (a summary from Lateral Action can be found here). There are many alternative words used to describe flow. Programmers may call this “deep hack [...]

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By: Vlog #15 Study Hacks: Leveraging Boredom and Laziness « unlikelysquiggle

Vlog #15 Study Hacks: Leveraging Boredom and Laziness « unlikelysquiggle — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:16:21 +0000

[...] have to be boring. Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (da-SHING-a-ma-holly) has this whole theory about Flow Experiences that make you a happy, fullfilled, ultimately engaged person. There’s even a chart he made to [...]

By: Creativity Stages and ‘Flow’ » Lone Gunman

Creativity Stages and ‘Flow’ » Lone Gunman — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:00:55 +0000

[...] are some fantastic notes on Csikszentmihalyi’s TED Talk at Lateral Action where they’ve provided his answer to the question, How does it feel to be in flow? Anyone who [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:49:29 +0000

@ Nahum

Mihaly’s description of being creative released a self doubt i had… I tought, that, being so self absorbed while doing a task was some kinda failure.

Very glad to hear it helped clear up a self doubt. The thing about flow is that you can become so absorbed in what you’re doing that you actually lose. your sense of self. From the outside, it might look like self-absorption, but on the inside, it’s anything but…

By: Nahum Correa Ruvalcaba

Nahum Correa Ruvalcaba — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:23:26 +0000

This post was just great.

Mihaly’s description of being creative released a self doubt i had… I tought, that, being so self absorbed while doing a task was some kinda failure. But it all comes to bits and thinking as he said, we can give our attention to something but understanding that is limited.

This kinda stuff is just powerful. I live in my own Nirvana then, trying to contribute to the world finding meaning in all the thing i do.

My father told sometime ago: “Your life is your canvas. God gave you a white canvas to make a painting on it, its up to you to draw a pretty image, a powerful image, a despair image and so on. But you are the artist and nobody can(and shouldn’t) paint it for you”

Im gathering information from places like this, from people like you and, with that knowledge, im expanding my possibilities and conciusness.

And by doing that i enter in a state of concentration…wich leads my hand, as if god guides it, to make wonderful things and contributions, to the world i love.