Deathmint
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More golden nuggets from Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by [UWSL]Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi[/UWSL]
What's your stance on this? Do you truly prefer total solitude or some interaction with animalistic scumbags?
Because I don't know what I want until I'm not allowed to have it.
"Most people feel a nearly intolerable sense of emptiness when they are
alone, especially with nothing specific to do. Adolescents, adults, and old
people all report that their worst experiences have taken place in solitude..."
"We need external goals, external stimulation, external feedback to keep attention
directed. And when external input is lacking, attention begins to wander,
and thoughts become chaotic—resulting in the state we have called
“psychic entropy”..."
"The person ignored grows gradually depressed, and soon begins to doubt his or her very exist-
ence. In some societies the final outcome of being ostracized is death: the
person who is left alone comes to accept the fact that he must be already
dead, since no one pays attention to him any longer..."
"At the same time, paradoxically, there is a long tradition of wisdom
warning us that “Hell is other people.” The Hindu sage and the Christian
hermit sought peace away from the madding crowd. And when we examine
the most negative experiences in the life of average people..."
Excerpts are from the Chapter 8 of the book, slightly out of order."...we depend so much on the
affection and approval of others, we are extremely vulnerable to how we
are treated by them."
What's your stance on this? Do you truly prefer total solitude or some interaction with animalistic scumbags?
Because I don't know what I want until I'm not allowed to have it.