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A major flow experience can improve our mood for hours, or even days… But because it’s such a state of extreme engagement, it eventually uses up our physical and mental resources.
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…when we set out to make our own happiness, we’re focused on activity that generates intrinsic rewards – the positive emotions, personal strengths, and social connections that we build…
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We do autotelic work because it engages us completely, and because intense engagement is the most pleasurable, satisfying, and meaningful emotional state we can experience.
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If we let our desire for more and more extrinsic rewards monopolize our time and attention, it prevent sus from engaging in autotelic activities that would actually increase our happiness.
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…the right kind of failure feedback is a reward. It makes us more engaged and more optimistic about our odds of success.
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…what happens if the play becomes explicit? Enter the world of gaming, the point where content moves far beyond engaging and mildly immersive to being absorbing and completely immersive.
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There may be rules in storytelling, but the more they are visible the less the story will engage.
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Customer journeys… become a unifying concept, through which the barriers and the potent drivers to engaging the customer [can] be mapped.
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A good website holds the viewer’s attention, and the best measure of her attention is how long a single page engages her.
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When we are in the process of doing we are at our most calm, engaged, and creative. Be present and enjoy the flow of your talents as you express them.
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