A Web Site That Promotes Flow Is Like A Gourmet Meal. You Start Off With The Appetizers, Move On To The Salads And Entrees, And Build Toward Dessert. Unfortunately, Most Sites Are Built Like A Cafeteria. You Pick Whatever You Want. That Sounds Good At First, But Soon It Doesn't Matter What You Choose To Do. Everything Is Bland And The Same.

-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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A Web Site That Promotes Flow Is

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Web Site That Promotes Flow Is Like A Gourmet Meal. You Start Off With The Appetizers, Move On To The Salads And Entrees, And Build Toward Dessert. Unfortunately, Most Sites Are Built Like A Cafeteria. You Pick Whatever You Want. That Sounds Good At First, But Soon It Doesn't Matter What You Choose To Do. Everything Is Bland And The Same.

Topic

Moving

Gourmet

Sound

What Does This Contradictory Pattern Mean?one Conclusion Seems Inevitable: When It Comes To Work, People Do Not Heed The Evidence Of Their Senses. They Disregard The Quality Of Immediate Experience, And Base Their Motivation Instead On The Strongly Rooted Cultural Stereotype Of What Work Is Supposed To Be Like. They Think Of It As An Imposition, A Constraint, An Infringement Of Their Freedom, And Therefore Something To Be Avoided As Much As Possible.

Motivation

Mean

Thinking