Csikszentmihalyi – Video

Making money with creativity generates incredible friction; the two fight for attention and simply refuse to get along.  They rarely even play nice.

It’s nearly impossible to write an introduction to the works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [M.C. for short] in the space of a blog post, but this video will help.

What motivated me to pass this along are these barriers to creative flow: Worry, Anxiety, Boredom, Apathy and the like.  What better way is there to describe the buttons that “creative for money” pushes repeatedly – as though waiting for a stalled elevator – than to suggest these barriers.

The ecstasy of creation is what we’re chasing and what M.C. describes as the Flow experience.  Get back to it by putting away the anxiety if you can. Maybe this will help.

Oh, one more thing: take note how M.C. threw the 10 years of study into the mix.  Do you think Malcom Gladwell ever read M.C.’s work?