Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi takes on the problem of how to live a happier life. A meaningful life is one where the person spends his time in a state of optimal experience calledFlow. To live a great life, all your goals must be unified in a way that produces the maximum amount of ...
In an effort to read up more about flow—primarily the pros and cons, and how to achieve states of flow more often—I readFinding FlowbyMihály Csíkszentmihályi(apparently it’s pronounced “chicks-send-me-high”), who first proposed the whole idea. ((Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1998).Finding...
The reader interested in knowing what works I base my assertions on can turn to the notes section beginning and, by looking under the reference, find a lead to Aristotle’s view of happiness as well as to contemporary research on this topic, with the appropriate citations. The notes can ...
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who first described the concept, suggests that this state of being able to achieve total focus applies to almost every field of activity. [1] According to Csikszentmihalyi, flow involves "being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time...
In his book Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls flow an optimal experience: There is no need to worry, no reason to question one’s adequacy. But whenever one does stop to think about oneself, the evidence is encouraging: “You are doing all right.” When we’re in a flow, our inner ...
Studies conducted by researchers like Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Steven Kotler emphasize the positive impact of the flow state on performance. In his seminal work “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Book,” Csikszentmihalyi notes that individuals in a state of flow can experience up to five...
Conventional wisdom dating back to the term’s establishment in the 1970s — by a psychologist named Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — says that flow comes from finding a challenge that you can totally immerse yourself in. Melnikoff’s research counters that idea: If you want to be highly productiv...
Mihaly - Beyond boredom and anxiety 被引量: 4691发表: 1975年 The Farther Reaches of Human Nature Notes the emergence of "a "transhumanistic psychology' dealing with transcendent experiences and with transcendent values." Transpersonal psychology is des... AH Maslow - Viking Press, 被引量: 3066...
The Good Feels of Flow The psychologist who coined the concept of flow back in 1990 (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, in case it comes up at a pub quiz) considered it an optimal life experience. When you're flowing, you're sort of stretched to your limits doing something that's challengingandsuper...
Being in aflow stateis much more common than hyperfocusing. InFlow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D., writes that most people will experience flow at one time or another.1 Csikszentmihalyi interviewed a composer who described flow like this: “You are ...