From the course: Creating Flow
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Everyone can experience flow
- In 1946, Victor Frankl, an Austrian Psychiatrist, published the book Man's Search for Meaning. Which chronicled his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during world war II. His psychotherapeutic method, logotherapy involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positive about, and then immersively imagining that outcome. Frankl argued that we can't avoid suffering, but we can choose how to cope with it. Find meaning in it, and move forward with a renewed sense of purpose. At the heart of his theory is a conviction that the primary human drive is not pleasure but the pursuit of what we find meaningful. It is not easy to transform ordinary experiences into flow states, but we have the capacity to improve our ability to do so. Studies have shown that those individuals who are more frequently in flow are able to enjoy situations that ordinary people would find unbearable. This is linked to what Frankl…
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