“Given the recurring need to return to this central question of how to achieve mastery overs ones life, what does the present state of knowledge say about it? How can it help a person learn to rid himself of anxieties and fears and thus become free of the controls of society, whose rewards he can now take or leave? As suggested before, the way is through the control of consciousness, which in turn leads to control over the quality of experience…” -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, FLOW
I think the authors are arriving at the same conclusion in different ways. An ability to control your perception starts with understanding your own consciousness. With this understanding and with the appropriate mental models you can better frame ‘stress’ in productive ways; to make it a lever/tool and not a blindfold.
That's fundamentally right. If we're understanding correctly, the subtle nuance is that Csikszentmihalyi suggests that stress can be overcome while McGonigal portrays it as a tool to be wielded, while they both emphasize the individual's need to reframe the issue in his/her own consciousness.
“Given the recurring need to return to this central question of how to achieve mastery overs ones life, what does the present state of knowledge say about it? How can it help a person learn to rid himself of anxieties and fears and thus become free of the controls of society, whose rewards he can now take or leave? As suggested before, the way is through the control of consciousness, which in turn leads to control over the quality of experience…” -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, FLOW
I think the authors are arriving at the same conclusion in different ways. An ability to control your perception starts with understanding your own consciousness. With this understanding and with the appropriate mental models you can better frame ‘stress’ in productive ways; to make it a lever/tool and not a blindfold.
That's fundamentally right. If we're understanding correctly, the subtle nuance is that Csikszentmihalyi suggests that stress can be overcome while McGonigal portrays it as a tool to be wielded, while they both emphasize the individual's need to reframe the issue in his/her own consciousness.
Stress is terrible but it can be your best friend if you use it correctly.
Thank you, Christos!