A piece of wisdom from
June 19, 2022 · Sunday
The quote
“A growth mindset is the belief that abilities can be developed. A fixed mindset is the belief they are given. The difference is whether you treat hard things as evidence of who you are, or as the path to who you are becoming.”
— Carol Dweck · Mental Toughness
The concept
Flow State
The closest you get, in waking life, to disappearing, and being more yourself than ever, at the same time.
Flow is not productivity. It is not focus. It is the optimal state of human experience, total absorption in an activity that matches your skill to a challenge worth caring about. Csikszentmihalyi spent thirty years documenting it across sur…
A practice for today
When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: the lesson of Flow State. The closest you get, in waking life, to disappearing, and being more yourself than ever, at the same time.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 12.13
अद्वेष्टा सर्वभूतानां मैत्रः करुण एव च। निर्ममो निरहङ्कारः समदुःखसुखः क्षमी॥
“He who hates no creature, who is friendly and compassionate, free from the sense of "I" and "mine", equal in pain and pleasure, patient — such a person is dear to me.”
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