The evolving self
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · first published 1993
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The author of the bestselling Flow (more than 125,000 copies sold) offers an intelligent, inspiring guide to life in the future.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who coined the term ‘flow’, has a whole philosophy on life detailed in: Flow The Evolving Self There’s the ‘awakening’ thing you can do, which might give a fresh perspective: The Mind Illuminated - Culadasa Seeing That Frees - Rob Burbea Right Concentration - Leigh Brasington
on “Ask HN: Books for Reevaluation of Life” ↗…particular life could always decrease while the entropy somewhere else far away undergoes a commensurate simultaneous increase. As I remember it, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (author of Flow) wrote in the book The Evolving Self that basically the meaningfulness of your life is: (the flow you experience == the entropy/time 'life bandwidth rate' you experience) x (the good you do for others) By going for a minimalist…
on “Entropy Is Fatal” ↗