Flow The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Name: Flow The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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ISBN: 9780061339202

ISBN-10: 0061339202

ISBN-13: 9780061339202

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Authors: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Sychologist 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. Book jacket.

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List price: $18.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Preface



Happiness Revisited


Introduction


Overview


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


Notes


References