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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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An edition of Flow (1990)

Flow

The Psychology of Optimal Experience

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  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
  • 25 Ratings
  • 393 Want to read
  • 14 Currently reading
  • 33 Have read

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, 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 and greatly improve the quality of our lives.

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Nonfiction, Psychology, Lebensfreude, Flow-Erlebnis, Attention, Happiness, Flow, General, Développement personnel, Psychologie, Personnalité, Atención, Felicidad, Self-actualization (Psychology), Bonheur, Conduct of life, Bf575.h27 c85 1990, Bf 575.h27 c958 1990, 155.2

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Flow
2008, HarperCollins
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (P.S.)
August 1, 2008, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (P.S.)
November 1, 2007, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Flow: the classic work on how to achieve happiness
2002, Rider
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
March 13, 1991, Harper Perennial
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
March 1991, HarperCollins Publishers
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Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
1990, Harper & Row
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Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
1990, Harper & Row
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Flow
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First Sentence

"TWENTY-THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO Aristotle concluded that, more than anything else, men and women seek happiness."

Table of Contents

Preface, xi
. 1 Happiness Revisited, 1
Introduction, 1
Overview, 5
The Roots of Discontent, 8
The Shields of Culture, 10
Reclaiming Experience, 16
Paths of Liberation, 20
. 2 The Anatomy of Consciousness, 23
The Limits of Consciousness, 28
Attention as Psychic Energy, 30
Enter the Self, 33
Disorder in Consciousness: Psychic Entropy, 36
Order in Consciousness: Flow, 39
Complexity and the Growth of the Self, 41
. 3 Enfoyment and The Quality of Life, 43
Pleasure and ENjoyment, 45
The Elements of Enjoyment, 48
The Autoteli Experience, 67
. 4 The Conditions of Flow, 71
Flow Activities, 72
Flow and Culture, 77
The Autotelic Personality, 83
The People of Flow, 90
. 5 The Body in Flow, 94
Higher, Faster, Stronger, 96
The Joys of Movement, 99
Sex as Flow, 100
The Ultimate control: Yoga and the Martial Arts, 103
Flow through the Senses: The Joys of Seeing, 106
The Flow of Music, 108
The Joys of Tasting, 113
. 6 The Flow of Thought, 117
The Mother of Science, 120
The Rules of the Games of the Mind, 124
The Play of Words, 128
Befriending Clio, 132
The Delights of Science, 134
Loving Wisdom, 138
Amateurs and Professionals, 139
The Challenge of Lifelong Learning, 141
. 7 Work as Flow, 143
Autotelic Workers, 144
Autotelic Jobs, 152
The Paradox of Work, 157
The Waste of Free Time, 162
. 8 Enjoying Solitude and Other People, 164
The Conflict between eing Alone and Being with Others, 165
The Pain of Loneliness, 168
Taming Solitude, 173
Flow and the Family, 175
Enjoying Friends, 185
The Wider Community, 190
. 9 Cheating Chaos, 192
Tragedies Transformed, 193
Coping with Stress, 198
The Power of Dissipative Structures, 201
The Autotelic Self: A Summary, 208
. 10 The Making of Meaning, 214
What Meaning Means, 215
Cultivating Purpose, 218
Forging Resolve, 223
Recovering Harmony, 227
The Unification of Meaning in Life Themes, 230
Notes, 241
References, 281

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OL7284467M
ISBN 10
0060920777
ISBN 13
9780060920777
OCLC/WorldCat
228093202
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100162

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