Flow Is Being Completely Involved

Today Many American Corporations Spend A Great Deal Of Money And Time Trying To Increase The Originality Of Their Employees, Hoping Thereby To Get A Competitive Edge In The Marketplace. But Such Programs Make No Difference Unless Management Also Learns To Recognize The Valuable Ideas Among The Many Novel Ones, And Then Finds Ways Of Implementing Them.

Most Enjoyable Activities Are Not Natural; They Demand An Effort That Initially One Is Reluctant To Make. But Once The Interaction Starts To Provide Feedback To The Person's Skills, It Usually Begins To Be Intrinsically Rewarding.

When We Are Involved In [creativity], We Feel That We Are Living More Fully Than During The Rest Of Life.

The Self Expands Through Acts Of Self Forgetfulness.

To Know Oneself Is The First Step Toward Making Flow A Part Of One's Entire Life. But Just As There Is No Free Lunch In The Material Economy, Nothing Comes Free In The Psychic One. If One Is Not Willing To Invest Psychic Energy In The Internal Reality Of Consciousness, And Instead Squanders It In Chasing External Rewards, One Loses Mastery Of One's Life, And Ends Up Becoming A Puppet Of Circumstances.