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Career Coach - 1. A Challenging Activity That Requires Skill

3Julian_beever_hole.jpgAlmost everyone describes flow experiences as involving a series of activities that are aimed at a specific and challenging goal, are bounded by rules and could not be accomplished without the right skills.

So for instance playing chess or the flute, cooking, driving, singing in the bath are all times when we might feel at one with ourselves. In many spiritual arenas the analogy would be with 'living in the moment.' Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says "Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's ability to act."

Posted on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at 09:06PM by Registered CommenterMargaret Stead in | Comments Off

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