Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity. . . In a … - Susan Cain

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There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

Susan Cain

Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity. . . In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.

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Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.

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