16 Feb 09
*Finish Things You Started*
I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me and we all could use more calm in our lives.
By following the simple advice I heard on a Medical TV show, I have finally found inner peace.
A Doctor proclaimed the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started.
So I looked around my house to see things I started and hadn't finished and, before leaving the house this morning.
I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Shhhardonay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of vocka, a pockage of prunglies tha mainder of bot Prozic and Valum scriptins, the res of the Chesescke an a box a chocolets.
Yu haf no idr who effin gud I fel.
Peas sen dis orn to dem yu fee ar in ned ov inr pece.........
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16 Feb 09
Originally posted by Dr StrangeloveNow that is funny
*Finish Things You Started*
I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me and we all could use more calm in our lives.
By following the simple advice I heard on a Medical TV show, I have finally found inner peace.
A Doctor proclaimed the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started.
So I looked ...[text shortened]... r who effin gud I fel.
Peas sen dis orn to dem yu fee ar in ned ov inr pece.........
😕
16 Feb 09
Originally posted by zozozozoThat does not sound like the flow-experience.
That sounds like the flow-experience
you set goals for yourself, then achieving them will give you a 'happy' feeling.
There can be easy goals, like finishing the laundry.
Or major things, like getting your diploma, this will result in a higher happyness state.
16 Feb 09
Originally posted by NordlysOh, ehm, any chance you can simply explain how to do that?
The book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (great name!)? Flow experience is all about intrinsic motivation, getting the experience out of what you are doing, not the goal (which is extrinsic motivation).
I dont see how something lame, like doing the laundry or cleaning the toilet is going to get me a good experience?
16 Feb 09
Originally posted by zozozozoHe doesn't claim that any activity is likely to give you a flow experience. The activity needs to be challenging enough (and yet doable), and of course it's easier if it's something you are interested in. But sometimes you might be able to make a boring task more challenging and interesting. I remember an example from the book about a saleslady who made it her challenge to get into a rhythm when registering the goods, typing numbers, greeting the customers etc., thus making it more interesting and giving it a certain beauty.
Oh, ehm, any chance you can simply explain how to do that?
I dont see how something lame, like doing the laundry or cleaning the toilet is going to get me a good experience?
16 Feb 09
Originally posted by Nordlysofcourse u can make boring things more interesting, like turning on the radio while ur doing the laundry, i didnt have to read a book for that:p
He doesn't claim that any activity is likely to give you a flow experience. The activity needs to be challenging enough (and yet doable), and of course it's easier if it's something you are interested in. But sometimes you might be able to make a boring task more challenging and interesting. I remember an example from the book about a saleslady who made it h ...[text shortened]... greeting the customers etc., thus making it more interesting and giving it a certain beauty.
but are u sure it wasnt also something like i said?
set a goal first, then feel good that its finished?
17 Feb 09
Originally posted by zozozozoIf you listen to the radio while doing the laundry, you don't make the activity itself more interesting, but add something interesting that is unrelated to the activity. That's not what I was talking about. Anyway, the book isn't about what you should do or how to make things more interesting, but it rather is an analysis and research report about a phenomenon.
ofcourse u can make boring things more interesting, like turning on the radio while ur doing the laundry, i didnt have to read a book for that:p
but are u sure it wasnt also something like i said?
set a goal first, then feel good that its finished?
And yes, I am quite sure it wasn't something like you said.
17 Feb 09
Originally posted by NordlysBut those 2 activitys (laundry + radio) get linked together since your doing them at the same time, so i think in a wierd way i can say that the laundry activity becomes more interesting.
If you listen to the radio while doing the laundry, you don't make the activity itself more interesting, but add something interesting that is unrelated to the activity. That's not what I was talking about. Anyway, the book isn't about what you should do or how to make things more interesting, but it rather is an analysis and research report about a phenomenon.
And yes, I am quite sure it wasn't something like you said.
Cant you just agree with me?
i dont want to read the book....😛
thx for explaining tho!