Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Hungarian-American psychologist (1934 to 2021) who named and studied 'flow'; headed the University of Chicago's psychology department and later was Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University.
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Their wordsA Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrées, and build toward dessert. Unfortunately, most sites are built like a cafeteria.
↗Go With The Flow (Wired, interview by John Geirland)wired.com 1st of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsGoals transform a random walk into a chase. You need clear goals that fit into a hierarchy, with little goals that build toward more meaningful, higher-level goals.
↗Go With The Flow (Wired, interview by John Geirland)wired.com 2nd of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsActually, they're probably more critical. A flow experience has got to be challenging. Anything that is not up to par is going to be irritating or ignored.
↗Go With The Flow (Wired, interview by John Geirland)wired.com 3rd of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsWe are still a multimedia organism. If we want to push the envelope of complexity further, we have to use all of our devices for accessing information - not all of which are rational.
↗Go With The Flow (Wired, interview by John Geirland)wired.com 4th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsOne problem television poses is that it doesn't provide children with the physical evidence of cause and effect.
↗Go With The Flow (Wired, interview by John Geirland)wired.com 5th of 7 in this piece
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Our reading
Online communities are easy to drop out of and need a common interest or ideology to have leverage
Their wordsOn the other hand, online communities are easy to create, but they are also easy to ignore and drop out of. There has to be a common business interest or ideology before an online community can have much leverage.
↗Go With The Flow (Wired, interview by John Geirland)wired.com 6th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsBut I'm still fighting the notion that the Net is really going to result in a more complex vision of reality. When things become too easy, they also end up becoming more sloppy.
↗Go With The Flow (Wired, interview by John Geirland)wired.com 7th of 7 in this piece
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