Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Flow


"It is what the sailor holding a tight course feels when the wind whips through her hair....It is what a painter feels when the colors on the canvas begin to set up a magnetic tension with each other, and a new thing, a living form, takes shape...."

These words, written by American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Mee-high CHICK-sent-me-high-ee), describe the state of "flow." It's a condition of heightened focus, productivity, and happiness that we all intuitively understand and hunger for.

Read the whole thing here.

And if you're anything like me, you need a soundtrack for you Flow. I've got some stuff over at my audio blog, Necessito La Music.

That's Right,

HMK