Generativity: The Art and Science of Exceptional Achievement by Andrew Lynn

Author:Andrew Lynn [Lynn, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: SPO041000, PSY034000, OCC000000, PHI000000, OCC010000, BUS071000
ISBN: 9781912360000
Publisher: Howgill House Books
Published: 2017-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

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That’s why immortals look like this:

It’s a painting (now housed in the National Palace Museum in Taipei) by Liang Kai (‘The Madman’) of an immortal.18 Sketched out using lighter and then darker washes of ink, the figure seems to be emerging from an aery nothingness into this world, before heading back into the nothingness from whence he came. The boundaries between himself and the world around him have dissolved entirely.

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True, this is not immortality in the traditional sense of infinite life span. What it is, though, is a continuity of experience that transcends ego. It’s what the Buddhists call ‘one-pointedness’ and what Csíkszentmihályi called flow. It’s the focus of mind on the task at hand.

And it’s what makes us great.

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