Some things we plan
We sit and we invent and we plot and cook up
Others are works of inspiration, of poetry
And it was this genius hand that pushed me
This is how creativity and inspiration appear to me these days. That genius hand can start pushing any time now...
From University of Chicago.
As a scholar, he is best known for creating flow theory—a state of being in which people become so immersed in the joy of their work or activity “that nothing else seems to matter.” He outlined the theory in Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, a seminal 1990 book that influenced leaders from politics to sports.
“Mike had a genius for creating simple, generative models of flow, creativity and aesthetic experience, and then unfolding their implications in his writings; the impact of his ideas has been remarkably broad,” said Jeanne Nakamura, an associate professor at Claremont Graduate University, where Csikszentmihalyi taught after retiring from UChicago in 1999.
“He was the best example of the things that he studied about the life well lived.”
I used the paper to measure how much room I will need for the base. More than two feet! It is a big prototype!
And what would it look like with a cute dinosaur in Rudolph's position?
