Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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- Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow.
- During flow, people typically experience deep creativity and a total involvement with life. Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance.
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience teaches how, by ordering the information that enters our consciousness, we can discover true happiness, unlock our potential, and greatly improve the quality of our lives.
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ABOUT: MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
- A Hungarian psychology professor, who emigrated to the United States at the age of 22.
- At Claremont Graduate University, he is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago.
- And work at the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College.
- He is noted for both his work in the study of happiness and creativity.
- And also for his notoriously difficult name, in terms of pronunciation for non-native speakers of the Hungarian language, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic.
- He is the author of many books and over 120 articles or book chapters. Martin Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association, described Csikszentmihalyi as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology.
Csikszentmihalyi once said "Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason." His works are influential and are widely cited.
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