Comments on: Quote Week, Day 6: Success, a.k.a. Hard Work http://lindenamueller.com/blog/2008/11/quote-week-day-6-success-aka-hard-work/ silvery strands of thought Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:55:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: xgravity23 http://lindenamueller.com/blog/2008/11/quote-week-day-6-success-aka-hard-work/comment-page-1/#comment-561 xgravity23 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:02:17 +0000 http://lindenamueller.com/blog/?p=653#comment-561 <a href="#comment-530" rel="nofollow">@ww</a> - That book sounds really interesting! I think I'm going to put it on my <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1218968?shelf=to-read" rel="nofollow">to-read</a> list! I wonder if it's some brain chemicals thing... Maybe whatever our brain is doing when we're engaged releases happy chemicals? @ww – That book sounds really interesting! I think I’m going to put it on my to-read list!

I wonder if it’s some brain chemicals thing… Maybe whatever our brain is doing when we’re engaged releases happy chemicals?

]]> By: Quote Week, Day 7: Life | Linden's Pensieve http://lindenamueller.com/blog/2008/11/quote-week-day-6-success-aka-hard-work/comment-page-1/#comment-537 Quote Week, Day 7: Life | Linden's Pensieve Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:21:45 +0000 http://lindenamueller.com/blog/?p=653#comment-537 [...] shared with you my favorite quotes on happiness, food, friendship, writing, productivity, and success. Today, life. It happens to us whether we’re living it or letting it live us. I think the [...]

[...] shared with you my favorite quotes on happiness, food, friendship, writing, productivity, and success. Today, life. It happens to us whether we’re living it or letting it live us. I think the [...]

]]> By: ww http://lindenamueller.com/blog/2008/11/quote-week-day-6-success-aka-hard-work/comment-page-1/#comment-530 ww Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:24:25 +0000 http://lindenamueller.com/blog/?p=653#comment-530 Great question. I was just reflecting today on how, when I was a kid, the fun in playing with toys was setting things up, not the actual play. Like with Legos, for example. The fun was in building whatever you were going to make with the Legos (a house, an airplane, etc.), not actually playing with the toy you made afterwards. In a book I read recently called "The Inner Game of Tennis" the author noticed that when he is playing tennis "in the zone", just letting things happen and not trying to control them too much with his conscious mind, that's when he finds it enjoyable. I'm not going to do it justice here, but I'll just say that it's sparked the idea in me that when you're engaged in doing something (read: hard work) that's when the happiness comes. Why I'm not sure, but cool, huh? Great question. I was just reflecting today on how, when I was a kid, the fun in playing with toys was setting things up, not the actual play. Like with Legos, for example. The fun was in building whatever you were going to make with the Legos (a house, an airplane, etc.), not actually playing with the toy you made afterwards. In a book I read recently called “The Inner Game of Tennis” the author noticed that when he is playing tennis “in the zone”, just letting things happen and not trying to control them too much with his conscious mind, that’s when he finds it enjoyable. I’m not going to do it justice here, but I’ll just say that it’s sparked the idea in me that when you’re engaged in doing something (read: hard work) that’s when the happiness comes. Why I’m not sure, but cool, huh?

]]>