“concentration so intense”: from page 71 of Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1990.
“Five years of reporting”: from page 13 of Gallagher, Rapt.
“I’ll choose my targets with care”: Ibid., 14.
A Psychological Argument for Depth For more on the experience sampling method, read the original article here:
Larson, Reed, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. “The Experience Sampling Method.”
New Directions for Methodology of Social & Behavioral Science. 15 (1983): 41-
56.
You can also find a short summary of the technique at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_sampling_method.