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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (P.S.) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mihaly Csikszent
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0061339202
Dewey Decimal Number: 150
EAN: 9780061339202
ASIN: 0061339202
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous 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 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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FLOW THE PSYCHOLOGY OF OPTIMAL EXPERIENCE January 1, 2009
Larry Mullins (St. Augustine, Florida)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
For those who have studied Abraham Maslow's concept of the peak experience, Flow is of extraordinary interest. Author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi brushes aside the idea that peak experiences are reserved for a special few. Much as Dr. Maslow observed in his later years, the peak experience occurs for virtually everyone. Csikszentmihalyi suggests techniques to make this glad to be alive feeling occur more often. A valuable, insightful contribution.
Flow: A Path to Happiness December 15, 2008
Beth
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Besides having more vowels in his name than any other researcher in the field of positive psychology, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is probably best known for his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. So what exactlty is flow and what does it have to do with finding happiness?
There are short and long ways to define the concept of flow. The short way is to tell you that flow is roughly the equivalent to what most people refer to as being "in the zone" or "in the groove". More elaborate definitions might be that it is "the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people do it even at great cost, for the sheer state of doing it."
Being such a desirable state, flow is naturally linked to happiness. The book feels that the path to happiness is a circuitous one that begins with one achieving control over the "contents of our consciousness". I'm taking that to mean that if I learn to find flow experiences, it will lead to greater happiness.
Know from the get-go that "Flow" is NOT a step-by-step book that gives you tips on how to be happy. Instead, the book summarizes years of research, so what you get when all is said and done, are general principles along with examples of how people have used them to transform their lives. The hope, then, is that you will have enough information in the book to make the transition from principles and theory, to actual practice.
In a nutshell, Flow is a unique and interesting book that examines the process of achieving happiness through the control of one's inner life. I didn't find it as easy to read as some books written by academic individuals, such as David Myer's The Pursuit of Happiness: Discovering the Pathway to Fulfillment, Well-Being, and Enduring Personal Joy, but it's definitely a "digestable" read for the general audience.
I'll tell you, though, after reading a lot of positive psychology books, you start to see some common threads. In "Flow", one of the conditions that makes flow occur is that you have a clear goal. And in the book Finding Happiness in a Frustrating World, it reveals that one proven way to increase long-term happiness (according to controlled trials cited in the book) is to set intrinsic/self-concordant goals. With much happiness research coming to similar conclusions, perhaps an important take-home message is this: the kinds of things we choose to spend our time on can have a HUGE impact on how happy we are. Happy trails!
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