Quotes About Flow

Qi cannot flow through a tense, knotted muscle or a locked joint.

Nae man can tether time or tide.

So time flows slow and worthless If it keeps me from understanding What I need, what I want

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

Time and tides wait for none

I had to let myself be carried along by the current, without a notion of where it would lead me.

There is one more point to be made. The spirit of the age is in constant movement. It is like a river that flows on, invisibly but surely, and given the momentum of life in our century, even 10 years is a long time.

four stoplights

The rhythms of the road were like rivers that flooded and receded in perpetuity.

fluid sloshing

River Box. It had remained in place while

Ironically, jobs are actually easier to enjoy than free time, because like flow activities they have built-in goals, feedback rules, and challenges, all of which encourage one to become involved in one's work, to concentrate and lose oneself in it. Free time, on the other hand, is unstructured, and requires much greater effort to be shaped into something that can be enjoyed.

This, ultimately, is the lesson to come away with from our brief foray into the world of experimental psychology: To build your working life around the experience of flow produced by deep work is a proven path to deep satisfaction.

decade: "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." Csikszentmihalyi calls this mental state flow (a term he popularized with a 1990 book of the same title).

To build your working life around the experience of flow produced by deep work is a proven path to deep satisfaction. A

the batching of hard but important intellectual work into long, uninterrupted stretches.

attention residue.

Irónicamente, es más fácil disfrutar el trabajo que el tiempo libre, porque —como ocurre en las actividades donde hay estado de flujo— el trabajo implica metas, reglas y retos. Todo ello contribuye a que uno se involucre en el trabajo, se concentre en él y se deje llevar. El tiempo libre, en cambio, es desestructurado y se requiere un mayor esfuerzo para darle una forma que nos produzca satisfacción.18

jobs should be redesigned so that they resemble as closely as possible flow activities.

The connection between deep work and flow should be clear: Deep work is an activity well suited to generate a flow state (the phrases used by Csikszentmihalyi to describe what generates flow include notions of stretching your mind to its limits, concentrating, and losing yourself in an activity—all of which also describe deep work).

there's one idea in particular that seems central to his method: the batching of hard but important intellectual work into long, uninterrupted stretches.

The purpose of the deep work chamber is to allow for total focus and uninterrupted work flow," Dewane explains. He imagines a process in which you spend ninety minutes inside, take a ninety-minute break, and repeat two or three times—at which point your brain will have achieved its limit of concentration for the day.

build your working life around the experience of flow