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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: We turn to religion and luxury to escape a cold, empty world.
Chapter 3: Our genes push us toward basic pleasures, not the demanding skills and challenges of real enjoyment.
Chapter 4: The building blocks of enjoyment are available to all, but each person’s goal is unique to them.
Chapter 5: Building new and engaging skills demands facing challenges linked to your own personal rewards.
Chapter 6: With discipline, we can harness our senses and movements to tune ourselves into a heightened awareness and deeper state.
Chapter 7: We can cultivate memory and thought to focus on complex ideas, not the self’s perceived flaws alone.
Chapter 8: When you treat work like a game, with intrinsic rewards and varied skills, it stops being “work.”
Chapter 9: Connecting with family, friends, and community is essential to our happiness, expression, and growth.
Chapter 10: Focused attention separates us from anxiety, helping us gain perspective and discover new ways to grow and thrive.
Chapter 11: Find life’s purpose by unifying your goals and building the resolve to act on them fully.
Description
Flow (1990) explores how we can experience enjoyment in our lives by controlling our attention and strengthening our resolve. This is achieved by being immersed in an activity or subject that makes us neither anxious (if it’s too hard), nor bored (if it’s too easy). In this “flow state” we lose our self-consciousness, selfishness and sense of time. Using goal-setting and immediate feedback, we can achieve a state of flow that improves our relationship with work, increases our self-worth and gives our lives meaning.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who wants to be more engaged with their relationships, their work or the world
- Anyone aiming to rise out of mediocrity and gain mastery over something
- Anyone who wants to know how their health can be improved by ancient wisdom and diverse cultures