Dogwood Lane is such a pleasant walk. The flowering trees are beautiful. When I see the opening to a Cave, just down the hill from where the path turns, visions of cool subterranean beauty come to mind as the perfect complement to this trek in the sunshine that is starting to get a little bit warm. Someone has carved "Csikzentmihalyi" into the stone by the cave entrance.What does that mean? You go explore for a few minutes...
Oh, and of course, Stalagmites... That is a curious one over there. It almost looks like writing along the side... "Auto..." "Autotelic?" What? You are not sure what autotelic means, but that does not appear to be a stalagmite!
Cave:
Stalagmites
Work will always be hard, but it does not always have to be unpleasant. According to Csikzentmihalyi, there is evidence in the Bible that shows that work has the ability to be the most enjoyable part of life. In some cultures the community works to make daily chores feel like flow activities. People from these communities seldom distinguish work from free time. But even in these communities the test of time has taken its tool. People of the older generations valued and enjoyed their work whereas people in the younger generations, twenty to thirty years old, would have preferred to work less and spend more time in leisure.
Autotelic jobs are more about the person doing the job than the job itself. People with an autotelic personality have the ability to, despite limitations, change constraints into opportunities for expressing their freedom and creativity.
For people with non-autotelic personalities the job must be changed to fit the characteristics of a game in order for them to enjoy the work. The job would inherently resemble a game equipped with variety, opportunity, clear goals, and feedback.
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This was a very interesting article to read. It is weird to think that people did work based on what they wanted to do or how the weather was. People would do what needed to be done for the sake of production for that day. In our world, since the industrial revolution, people do what they are told to do, regardless of the weather. Very few people make their work related decisions based on the weather.
Autotelic jobs are more about the person doing the job than the job itself. People with an autotelic personality have the ability to, despite limitations, change constraints into opportunities for expressing their freedom and creativity.
For people with non-autotelic personalities the job must be changed to fit the characteristics of a game in order for them to enjoy the work. The job would inherently resemble a game equipped with variety, opportunity, clear goals, and feedback.
Review:
This was a very interesting article to read. It is weird to think that people did work based on what they wanted to do or how the weather was. People would do what needed to be done for the sake of production for that day. In our world, since the industrial revolution, people do what they are told to do, regardless of the weather. Very few people make their work related decisions based on the weather.
If life were a game, we would enjoy our jobs more.
I would have liked you to discuss the three examples given in this reading a bit more.
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