Via Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi((pronounced “CHICK-sent-me-high-ee”) , Chicago professor and the author of one the most influential books,"FLOW" says , being in flow means : Completely involved in what we are doing - focused, concentrated A sense of ecstasy - of being outside everyday reality Greater inner clarity - knowing what needs to be done, and how well we are doing Knowing that the activity is doable - that our skills are adequate to the task Sense of serenity - no worries about oneself, and a feeling of growing beyond the boundaries of the ego Timelessness - thoroughly focused on the present, hours seem to pass by in minutes Intrinsic motivation - whatever produces flow becomes its own reward

A programmer can write tens of thousands of lines of code, and produce a lot of software that works. A less productive coder can write a tenth of the lines, perhaps even editing down what she writes so that there’s less code, but they’re better written. This small program might be the most useful thing on many people’s computers, flawless code that just works. - Leo Babauta

This is what an 8 year slog with Abacus/ Soroban (as called in Japan) can enable one to do . Look at the video and watch how one can visualize huge mental arithmetic problem..It was a jaw dropping experience to watch kids do this!!

While using R, there are umpteen instances one has to browse for the relevant package for a dataset / function / class. It is a time consuming activity….But now, thanks to the authors of sos library its an effortless exercise!… Let’s say you want to use robust estimator for a sample and you want to know whether R community has it already or not. With just three lines of code, you get a ton of summary relating to what you want to search