Though yesterday I made a point not to look further for information on “RUR” or “Bury the Dead” but curiosity gets much of its way over me today. Lo behold “RUR: Rossum’s Universal Robots” is much too interesting to be ignored, to be compared to “The Adding Machine” and I can leave “Rhinoceros” to its original reason, coming out with the position paper. The author name is not Katel Capel as written in Brandeis Adult Learning Institute’s Course Descriptions, its Karel Capek, the most important Czech writer of the first half of the 20th century, the co-inventor of the word robot, a novelist, playwright, journalist and translator.
I guess I am getting my flow now, my optimal experience as Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s “Flow Theory”, a Russian psychologist who won the Thinker of the Year Award in 2000. He is chiefly renowned as the architect of the notion of flow in creativity whereby people enter a flow state when they are fully absorbed in activity during which they lose their sense of time and have feelings of great satisfaction. Mr. Csikszentmihalyi describes flow as "being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost.” On the rare occassions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.
By the way, I was introduced to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi by my former Assistant Director Head of the unit where I work, Mr Shahril bin Mohd Kharib who is now one of the Director at Special Education Department, Ministry of Education.
I guess I am getting my flow now, my optimal experience as Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s “Flow Theory”, a Russian psychologist who won the Thinker of the Year Award in 2000. He is chiefly renowned as the architect of the notion of flow in creativity whereby people enter a flow state when they are fully absorbed in activity during which they lose their sense of time and have feelings of great satisfaction. Mr. Csikszentmihalyi describes flow as "being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost.” On the rare occassions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.
By the way, I was introduced to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi by my former Assistant Director Head of the unit where I work, Mr Shahril bin Mohd Kharib who is now one of the Director at Special Education Department, Ministry of Education.
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