Dear Steve,
I received you most recent posting after I commented on your exchange with
Mitch Alegre. I am familiar with Csikszentmihalyi's (I can not pronounce
it either) work on the sense of flow, peak experiences, and performance. I
am not sure that the trinitarian view of time is not useful for
Csikszentmihalyi, it just becomes irrelevant during peak experiences, where
the flow brings time to a halt. It is during these periods where behavior
becomes self-expressive rather than instrumental-calculative. From this
viewpoint, we do things because of what we "are," because by doing them we
establish and affirm an identity for ourselves. In someways, this is akin
to our argument that it is in periods of change when past, present, and
future come together.
Regards, Kim
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Kim Boal
College of Business Administration
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409
(806) 742-2150
KimBoal@ttu.edu