Jay Dixit » goals http://jaydixit.com "I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends." Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:46:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Goal Post http://jaydixit.com/2008/03/03/goal-post/ http://jaydixit.com/2008/03/03/goal-post/#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:27:54 +0000 Jay http://www.jaydixit.com/wordpress/2008/03/03/goal-post/ goals. i haz dem. The other night my roommate and I were having a conversation and the subject of goals came up. I had been reading about the state of effortless concentration and enjoyment that psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has famously termed “flow.” Flow occurs when you’re so absorbed in a task that you lose track of everything else. You fall into the rhythm of your activity so completely that all distractions melt away, and may even lose track of time. I mentioned that having a clearly defined goal is an important component in achieving flow.

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