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16 Mar 2025 Lenny's Podcast The hidden power of introverts: How to thrive without changing who you are | Susan Cain (author of "Quiet")
“So I was talking earlier about the psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He famously wrote a book about flow. It's literally called Flow. And flow is the state of mind you get into when you're totally engaged in an activity, and you're completely absorbed by it, and you're feeling neither bored nor anxious, you're just in it. And the book just describes all the research on this date and what it is, and it completely changed my life, so I recommend that one all the time. And also The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, who was just a great mythologist, and completely fascinating, and-”
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- 16 Mar 2025
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…First question, what are two or three books that you find yourself recommending most to other people? So I was talking earlier about the psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He famously wrote a book about flow. It's literally called Flow. And flow is the state of mind you get into when you're totally engaged in an activity, and you're completely absorbed by it, and you're feeling neither bored nor anxious, you're just in it. And the book just describes all the research on this date and what it is, and it completely changed my life, so I recommend that one all the time. And also The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, who was just a great mythologist, and completely fascinating, and- Hero's journey.…
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