Finding a Place to Start: Self Assessment
Flow- Work As Play:
A student once said that his father told him, "Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life."
Motivational psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote a book called Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, in which he examines the experience of people engaged in a creative process. He called this experience "Flow."
When we are truly absorbed in what we are doing, we forget about time passing, we don't feel tired, and we experience a kind of exhileration and intensity. In these moments, purposeful activity is more like "play" than "work".
Csikszentmihalyi points out how sad it is that so much of the time adults experience boredom or frustration in their work activities.
"Flow" is a hallmark of work that is an expression of ourselves, and a reflection of our deepest interests.
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