This morning, Noel. Super cheery blond on the L train going to 49th street. Mentions she hasn’t really seen anyone reading “Flow: The psychology of optimal experience” out in public but that it’s a great book. Too true, and too relevant to the whole train thing. We talk about how no one looks at each other on the train. “Yeah, when it’s really crowded, I just end up staring about something at the Bronx Zoo over and over.”
Me: It would be cool to do a graffiti project and put up some sort of question to ask the person next to you huh? Like “Ask the person next to you what they’re thinking right now.”
She agrees and it sounds like we (or rather I) am going to pursue this.
She says: people would probably just look at the person next to them, but at least it would get them thinking.
So here’s to figuring out what phrases and questions to create… NYC here I come.
Hope to see Noel again some time soon!
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html