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its in chapter 4 somewhere there

The Autobiography of William Zeckendorf is mentioned somewhere there

5% of people are doers/initiators. The other 95% is willing to be influenced by what the initiators have to say.

Kids need to know that their parents are centering...

or the children’s perception that their parents are interested in what they are doing in the present, in their concrete feelings and experiences, rather than being preoccupied with whether they will be getting into a good college or obtaining a well-paying job

decide is relevant for the moment. While paying attention ordinarily involves an additional burden of information processing above the usual baseline effort, for people who have learned to control consciousness focusing attention is relatively effortless, because they can shut off all mental processes but the relevant ones. I

The most likely explanation for this unusual finding seems to be that the group reporting more flow was able to reduce mental activity in every information channel but the one involved in concentrating on the flashing stimuli. This in turn suggests that people who can enjoy themselves in a variety of situations have the ability to screen out stimulation and to focus only on what they ......

"Individuals who require a great deal of outside information to form representations of reality in consciousness may become more dependent on the external environment for using their minds"

125 of 425 on the kindle book. Flow can create energies. Sometimes they are so powerful that they are bad for humanity if taken too far.

As a kid this one guy sat through many boring Mozart pieces. After three years he had an epiphany of what Mozart was trying to solve and finally enjoyed it...after three whole years!

Forward movement and a sense of accomplishment play into it

Enjoyment is when somebody's satisfaction meets what they expected it to be or when it's more than what they expected it to be.

Each person allocates his or her attention either by focusing it intentionally like a beam of energy or by diffusing it in desultory random movements.

Physical discomfort is only important when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.

Chris Anderson's the long tail

zipfs law

beautiful explanation of creativity

In every discipline the ability to be clearheaded, present, cool under fire is much of what separates the best from the mediocre.

Increasingly, I had the sense that the key to these leaps was interconnectedness - some part of my being was harmonizing all my relevant knowledge, making it gel into one potent eruption and suddenly the enigmatic was crystal clear. But what was really happening?......... HOLY SHIT. that happened in my life a few times on an impactful scale. shit. damn. when it did all I saw was beauty. Duuuddeeeeeeeee Awesome.

Broke right arm. For 6 weeks couldn't move it, but he imagined it being worked out though he could only work out the left. To the doctor's shock the arm didn't atrophy.