Archive for October 29th, 2005

Flow

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

I was recently thinking about why I love ReSharper so much, and the biggest reason came down to achieving flow. It’s amazing the productivity and the enjoyment that come out of being put in an energetic and focused mindset.

The components of flow (from WikiPedia / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) are:

  • We are up to the activity.
  • We are able to concentrate on the activity.
  • The activity has clear goals.
  • The activity has direct feedback.
  • We feel that we control the activity.
  • Our worries and concerns disappear.
  • Our subjective experience of time is altered.

Although ReSharper doesn’t provide all of this directly, it’s the glue that tends brings my IDE experience together.

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