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RE: Entering the State of Optimal Experience (Flow)

in #happiness • 8 years ago

I'm a huge fan of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi even though I can never pronounce his name. I tend to think of Flow a lot when pondering Universal Basic Income or other more ideal setups. You'll always get people putting forth full effort when in this state.

The video you linked on it is phenomenal! Thanks for sharing it.

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     8 years ago  

    I'm a huge fan of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi even though I can never pronounce his name

    I've defaulted to the "flow guy" haha.

    I tend to think of Flow a lot when pondering Universal Basic Income or other more ideal setups. You'll always get people putting forth full effort when in this state.

    Because the base of Maslow's hierarchy has been taken care of?

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       8 years ago  

      Lol, I think "flow guy" works.

      Exactly. When the physiological needs are met (which UBI in theory would take care of) then it changes the game from "what do I have to do" towards "what do I want to do."

      While this really is a much tougher (and changing) question to answer, this tends to put people working towards things they are truly passionate about. Of course at the beginning there is a 'learning curve' that anyone would have to overcome, this would normalize into states of flow whether in action (music, games, etc.) or curiosity.

      There would still be the difficulty of 'society' having all the bases covered (such as x amount of food still needs to be produced and available,) but at least people would be doing what they do with maximum effort.