Mental
When Does Time Disappear?
In flow, something extraordinary happens: the constant chatter of self-consciousness disappears. You're not worried about how you look or what others think. You're not even thinking about yourself at all. The ego dissolves into pure action.
The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The thinker
Flow state researcher
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a Hungarian-American psychologist who pioneered research on the psychological concept of flow, fundamentally changing how we understand optimal human experience.
Based on Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness (TED), summarised and reframed by Insights.
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