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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 ......

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.