quiet-the-power-of-introverts-in-a-world-that-cant-stop-talking-susan-cain

extrovert, many of the flow experiences
that Csikszentmihalyi writes about are
solitary pursuits that have nothing to
do with reward-seeking: reading, tending
an orchard, solo ocean cruising.
Flow often occurs, he writes, in conditions
in which people “become independent
of the social environment to
the degree that they no longer respond
exclusively in terms of its rewards and
punishments. To achieve such
autonomy, a person has to learn to
provide rewards to herself.”
In a sense, Csikszentmihalyi transcends
Aristotle; he is telling us that
there are some activities that are not
about approach or avoidance, but about
something deeper: the fulfillment that
comes from absorption in an activity
outside yourself. “Psychological theories
usually assume that we are motivated
either by the need to eliminate an
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