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How can we bring into being
a world in which most people spent most of their time happily
engaged in productive activity, experiencing joy in
their productive activities, so that they are engaged
in a permanently virtuous circle of greater joy,
expertise and excellence leading to greater
contribution to society?
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, an interview titled “Flow
with Soul” in What is Enlightenment? magazine. The author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience,
discusses how
he discovered it, what it’s shortcomings are, and
other issues.
- Rob Jellinghaus, “Flow: What’s
Worth Living For?”
A personal
statement on flow with a long quotation from
Csikszentmihalyi and a statement on “Flow and
Society.”
- A brief summary of Martin Seligman’s Learned Optimism.
Optimism inoculates against depression, improves
health, combines with talent and desire to enable
achievement, and, most importantly, can be learned.
- Think Arete. “The
classic
Greek philosophers had a word for the process of
self-actualizing and striving to reach your highest
potential. They called it 'Areté.'”
- James Neill’s links on “Psychology
of Human Growth and
Transpersonal Education.”
A variety of
different links including classic humanism,
contemporary psychology, and an introduction to some
frontiers.
- Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Bronson
Alcott, and other Trancendentalists were in many respects
early
FLOW-ers -
people
who were passionate about exploring themselves and the
world, and making the world a better place, by means
of voluntary initiatives.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The
Psychology of Optimal Experience.“Being completely
involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away.
Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows
inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.
Your whole being is involved, and you're using your
skills to the utmost.”
- Martin Seligman, Learned Optimism."I
believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer
can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire
to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music,
he will come to nothing. . . . Success requires
persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of
failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style
is the key to persistence."
- Napolean Hill, Think and Grow Rich. Despite the title,
this is really about how to develop a vision and make
it into a reality. A classic from a more innocent
age, everything he says may be used to help you
manifest your dreams of whatever sort.
There are many thousands of valuable books on personal
and spiritual growth. Please explore whatever
direction or tradition appeals to you.
In addition to the material above, we encourage
you to download the materials below from Michael Strong’s
forthcoming book The Creation of Conscious Culture
Through Educational Innovation. As important as it is
for us adults to experience a more positive,
productive, effective, and happy life, it is even more
important to create a world in which more and more
young people develop positive lives. FLOW would like
to see many thousands of educational entrepreneurs
creating newer, better schools that disseminate
greater human flourishing. What can you do to help
make this happen?
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