Comments on: ‘Flow’ and the waste of free time http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/01/26/flow-and-the-waste-of-free-time/ Education. Technology. Productivity. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dougbelshaw.com/blog » Blog Archive » Flow and the Autotelic Classroomhttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/01/26/flow-and-the-waste-of-free-time/comment-page-1/#comment-2280 dougbelshaw.com/blog » Blog Archive » Flow and the Autotelic Classroom Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:10:39 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=1801#comment-2280 [...] use this contact form. Thanks for visiting! I’ve mentioned the concept of ‘Flow’ recently after reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s seminal work Flow: the psychology of optimal [...] [...] use this contact form. Thanks for visiting! I’ve mentioned the concept of ‘Flow’ recently after reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s seminal work Flow: the psychology of optimal [...]

]]> By: Patricia Rosewellhttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/01/26/flow-and-the-waste-of-free-time/comment-page-1/#comment-5604 Patricia Rosewell Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:18:00 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=1801#comment-5604 Hear, hear! but then again, maybe not? Do only those with a certain amount of self-confidence, self-esteem, self-knowledge succeed in managing free time in a participatory fashion? Or want to? Perhaps lots of different types of, and functions for, free time? (eg for relaxation, for connecting with others, for sensual pleasure [eg great cinematography might be a boon to those trapped in the city, if they'd prefer the countryside; cf 'Countryfile'], for maximising potential . . . and so on). So many things I could say; would love to know your further thoughts! Hear, hear! but then again, maybe not?

Do only those with a certain amount of self-confidence, self-esteem, self-knowledge succeed in managing free time in a participatory fashion? Or want to?

Perhaps lots of different types of, and functions for, free time? (eg for relaxation, for connecting with others, for sensual pleasure [eg great cinematography might be a boon to those trapped in the city, if they'd prefer the countryside; cf 'Countryfile'], for maximising potential . . . and so on).

So many things I could say; would love to know your further thoughts!

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