《心流》：最优体验

打游戏能一坐四小时，写方案二十分钟就抓耳挠腮——差别不在意志力，在于有没有进入「心流」。Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 研究了几十年「人什么时候最幸福」，答案不是躺着，而是全神贯注做一件有难度的事。

生命中最美好的时刻，不是被动、放松、休息的时刻……最美好的时刻，通常发生在一个人把身体或心智拉伸到极限，去自愿完成一件困难而有价值的事情时。 The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times... The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

他把这种状态命名为「心流」，并给出了一句干净的定义：

心流即一个人完全沉浸在某种活动当中，无视其他事物存在的状态。这种体验本身带来莫大的喜悦，使人愿意付出巨大的代价。 Flow is the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.