autotelic

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I don't want to be part of a hacker community that doesn't encourage autotelic projects.

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of or relating to or believing in autotelism

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adjective

of or relating to or believing in autotelism

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adjective

of or relating to or believing in autotelism

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I don't want to be part of a hacker community that doesn't encourage autotelic projects.

If a person is autotelic and takes enjoyment not from materialistic things, do you think they would have the same feeling?

If the discussion is about That, quality-free substratum in which observations or deductions are made, then it is an act of autotelic contemplation.

I did it as a final for an upper level Personality Psych course in college; the paper itself focused mostly on the autotelic personality and the tDCS 'artificial flow' stuff.

It can be a challenge, sometimes a very large one, but by and large it is an autotelic activity that people are born quite enamored of, and I believe depicting it as an unfortunate fact of life for the sake of making people tolerate their own suffering is "short-sighted nonsense" that most often puts people off of the whole activity.

[3] intense and focused concentration on the present moment\n merging of action and awareness\n a loss of reflective self-consciousness\n a sense of personal control or agency over the situation or activity\n a distortion of temporal experience, one's subjective experience of time is altered\n experience of the activity as intrinsically rewarding, also referred to as autotelic experience\n\nThose aspects can appear independently of each other, but only in combination do they constitute a so-called flow experience.