Quotes About Engagement

This fact brings us to the second condition that affects whether an optimal experience will occur or not: an individual's ability to restructure consciousness so as to make flow possible.

The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.

Such individuals lead vigorous lives, are open to a variety of experiences, keep on learning until the day they die, and have strong ties and commitments to other people and to the environment in which they live. They enjoy whatever they do, even if tedious or difficult; they are hardly ever bored

concepto del flujo, el estado en el cual las personas se hallan tan involucradas en la actividad que nada más parece importarles;

Involvement is greatly facilitated by the ability to concentrate. People who suffer from attentional disorders, who cannot keep their minds from wandering, always feel left out of the flow of life.

So the first step in improving the quality of life consists in engineering daily activities so that one gets the most rewarding experiences from them.

without disinterested interest life is uninteresting.

In a really enjoyable game, the players are balanced on the fine line between boredom and anxiety. The same is true when work, or a conversation, or a relationship is going well.

How to avoid the danger of polarizing life into work that is meaningless because it is unfree, and leisure that is meaningless because it has no purpose?

If you are interested in something you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it.

As one focuses on any segment of reality, a potentially infinite range of opportunities for action-physical, mental, or emotional-is revealed for our skills to engage with. There is never a good excuse for being bored.

The shape and content of life depend on how attention has been used.

It sounds somewhat ridiculous to say that one of the problems we face at this point in history is that we haven't learned how to spend free time in a sensible way.

the secret to a happy life is to learn to get flow from as many of the things we have to do as possible.

To achieve creativity in an existing domain, there must be surplus attention available.

Flow tends to occur when a person's skills are fully involved in overcoming a challenge that is just about manageable.

If you are interested in something you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, you will become interested in it.

Science is very much fun. And I think women should have the opportunity to have fun.

creative people usually enjoy not only their work but also the many other activities in their lives.

The popular assumption is that no skills are involved in enjoying free time, and that anybody can do it. Yet the evidence suggests the opposite: free time is more difficult to enjoy than work.

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try; If we don't, it doesn't matter, but we'd better start to die.

Passive leisure becomes a problem when a person uses it as the principal-or the only-strategy to fill up free time.

If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.

Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.