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43: Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Bookworm

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What Are You Getting at With This Question?

We come across a lot of books that don't always strike our fancy. Yet we persevere, we go through them. And i'm curious whaty getting at with this, cause it's a question that i think i want any answer to. So let me back up just a little bit and share a couple of quotes this whole section on the flow of thought as it pertains to attention. This is emil in a nutshell. You lose sight of the things that are important to you. He also says, to avoid this condition, people are naturally eager to fill their minds with whatever information is readily available,. As long as it distracts attention from turning inward and dwelling on negative feelings

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