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Flow : the psychology of optimal experience / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harper Perennial modern classicsPublisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2008Copyright date: ©1990Edition: First Harper Perennial Modern Classics editionDescription: xii, 303, 16 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780061339202
  • 0061339202
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Contents:
Happiness revisited : The roots of discontent ; The shields of culture ; Reclaiming experience ; Paths of liberation -- The anatomy of consciousness : The limits of consciousness ; Attention as psychic energy ; Enter the self ; Disorder in consciousness: psychic entropy ; Order in consciousness: flow ; Complexity and the growth of the self -- Enjoyment and the quality of life : Pleasure and enjoyment ; The elements of enjoyment ; The autotelic experience -- The conditions of flow : Flow activities ; Flow and culture ; The autotelic personality ; The people of flow -- The body in flow : Higher, faster, stronger ; The joys of movement ; Sex as flow ; The ultimate control: yoga and the martial arts ; Flow through the senses: the joys of seeing ; The flow of music ; The joys of tasting -- The flow of thought : The mother of science ; The rules of the games of the mind ; The play of words ; Befriending Clio ; The delights of science ; Loving wisdom ; Amateurs and professionals ; The challenge of lifelong learning -- Work as flow : Autotelic workers ; Autotelic jobs ; The paradox of work ; The waste of free time -- Enjoying solitude and other people : The conflict between being alone and being with others ; The pain of loneliness ; Taming solitude ; Flow and the family ; Enjoying friends ; The wider community -- Cheating chaos : Tragedies transformed ; Coping with stress ; The power of dissipative structures ; The autotelic self: a summary -- The making of meaning : What meaning means ; Cultivating purpose ; Forging resolve ; Recovering harmony ; The unification of meaning in life themes.
Summary: 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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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Csikszentmihalyi arrives at an insight that many of us can intuitively grasp, despite our insistent (and culturally supported) denial of this truth. That is, it is not what happens to us that determines our happiness, but the manner in which we make sense of that reality. . . . The manner in which Csikszentmihalyi integrates research on consciousness, personal psychology and spirituality is illuminating." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

The bestselling classic that holds the key to unlocking meaning, creativity, peak performance, and true happiness.

Legendary 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 ("the leading researcher into 'flow states'" --Newsweek) 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.

Includes reader's guide.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-303).

Happiness revisited : The roots of discontent ; The shields of culture ; Reclaiming experience ; Paths of liberation -- The anatomy of consciousness : The limits of consciousness ; Attention as psychic energy ; Enter the self ; Disorder in consciousness: psychic entropy ; Order in consciousness: flow ; Complexity and the growth of the self -- Enjoyment and the quality of life : Pleasure and enjoyment ; The elements of enjoyment ; The autotelic experience -- The conditions of flow : Flow activities ; Flow and culture ; The autotelic personality ; The people of flow -- The body in flow : Higher, faster, stronger ; The joys of movement ; Sex as flow ; The ultimate control: yoga and the martial arts ; Flow through the senses: the joys of seeing ; The flow of music ; The joys of tasting -- The flow of thought : The mother of science ; The rules of the games of the mind ; The play of words ; Befriending Clio ; The delights of science ; Loving wisdom ; Amateurs and professionals ; The challenge of lifelong learning -- Work as flow : Autotelic workers ; Autotelic jobs ; The paradox of work ; The waste of free time -- Enjoying solitude and other people : The conflict between being alone and being with others ; The pain of loneliness ; Taming solitude ; Flow and the family ; Enjoying friends ; The wider community -- Cheating chaos : Tragedies transformed ; Coping with stress ; The power of dissipative structures ; The autotelic self: a summary -- The making of meaning : What meaning means ; Cultivating purpose ; Forging resolve ; Recovering harmony ; The unification of meaning in life themes.

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.

Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1990.

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