psychology

Universal Agreement on What Enjoyment Is

One of the things that surprised Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi when he was doing surveys about pleasure and enjoyment was the universal agreement on what constituted an enjoyable experience. He found that people from all cultures, all stages of life shared the same sense of what made an activity truly enjoyable. Moreover, widely differing activities from art

Can You Prevent Burnout by Focusing on Quality?

In a podcast about “Slow Productivity” Cal Newport suggests that organizations could do a lot to prevent employee burnout by shifting their goals to quality of output over quantity. This would let workers do their jobs at a more natural pace, working the way our brains are wired. But let’s say we can’t wait for

Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow

The other morning I had a mind-blowing revelation – this breaking news that has people freaking out – it’s all bullshit. There’s a bigger problem facing us and we don’t even see it. The insight came to me while I was headed for work southbound on the 101 freeway, taking a break from the headlines