On Mar 26, 2:56 pm, "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 26, 1:21 pm, "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Folks, the difference between these two points of view is stupendous. > > > Once one understands the kind of work required, one can focus on doing > > more of that work. My new mantra is: work harder! > > There is another liberating aspect of these insights. It is this. > Deliberate practice does *not* have to be enjoyable at all moments. > Sometimes "failure" can be frustrating, discouraging, etc. > > Similarly, I am not always happy on the "surface" when working on > Leo. Yet I know that this is fulfilling work for me, so in some > deeper sense I am "happy" even when growling.
I remember Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's theory of "Flow: the psychology of optimal experience" - being so engaged that there is no room for anxiety is it's own kind of happiness... In "The Love of Fate" (the last chapter of "Finding Flow") he talks about participating in something bigger than ourself as "good", engaging, and meaningful... In the sense that this is so, it is a core aspect (it seems to me) of the definition of us as a social species. For me, your reference to Srikumar Rao's "focus on process" (or, "The Journey is the reward" - as is famously known) is congruent with Mihaly's Flow theory; the joining perspectives making the reality of this more concrete, richer. Somewhere I read a related article - when looking up the "esoteric" defense Csikszentmihalyi put for for the statistical relevance of his method of sampling human experience - about something that seemed stunningly related: our natural drive to increase competence as a mechanism of survival - in essence, another aspect of what drives us to reach "Flow", and why that might / must be an "enjoyable" experience, by definition. Good stuff! - Yarko > > I think language does not adequately express this difference between > deep and surface emotions. When the deep structure is in place, the > surface emotions don't make so much difference. > > Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
