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Tangentially related, but has anyone here read his other book, "Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention". I loved "Flow" (his main book) so I wanted to read something else from him, but somehow it was just not the same. In the Flow book, I understood which concepts I should understand as a reader and the background of them, including individual stories, was very coherent. I can't really say the same about the other book. I would be interested what others think about this.

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ten years ago I took a college freshman course that centered around "Creativity." I've never actually read all of Flow and so "Creativity" was my introduction to the Flow concept. I was an art student at the time so it was convenient to have source material that did the work of showing me how any of this was relevant to what I do. That said, it definitely seems like "Creativity" was a re-hash of the concepts originated within Flow. It has been a long time since I read it and should probably revisit.

I often forget, but it was this book that helped me decide to become a programmer. I flip-flopped a lot between college majors and just generally what the hell it was i wanted to do for a living. The professor who ran that course asked me what job would easily create (and sustain) flow states for me. For me, it was programming that did the trick. Not even art, which i did for 12 hours a day at the time, worked quite as well.