Creative Individuals Are More Likely To Have

Flow Is Hard To Achieve Without Effort. Flow Is Not 'wasting Time.

I Have Devoted 30 Years Of Research To How Creative People Live And Work, To Make More Understandable The Mysterious Process By Which They Come Up With New Ideas And New Things. [...] If I Had To Express In One Word What Makes Their Personalities Different From Others, It's Complexity. They Show Tendencies Of Thought And Action That In Most People Are Segregated. They Contain Contradictory Extremes; Instead Of Being An "individual", Each Of Them Is A "multitude".

It Is By Being Fully Involved With Every Detail Of Our Lives, Whether Good Or Bad, That We Find Happiness, Not By Trying To Look For It Directly.

If I Had To Express In One Word What Makes Their [creative Individuals'] Personalities Different From Others, It's Complexity. They Show Tendencies Of Thought And Action That In Most People Are Segregated. They Contain Contradictory Extremes; Instead Of Being An "individual," Each Of Them Is A "multitude."

Flow Is Being Completely Involved In An Activity For Its Own Sake. The Ego Falls Away. Time Flies. Every Action, Movement, And Thought Follows Inevitably From The Previous One, Like Playing Jazz.