![]() 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. 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. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. 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. The bestselling classic that holds the key to unlocking meaning, creativity, peak performance, and true happiness. Your whole being is involved, and you’re using your skills to the utmost. ![]() ![]() Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. T he manner in which Csikszentmihalyi integrates research on consciousness, personal psychology and spirituality is i lluminating.” -Los Angeles Times Book Review Here’s how Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi described the state of flow: being completely involved in an acitivty for its own sake. That is, it is not what happens to us that determines our happiness, but the manner in which we make sense of that reality. ![]() “Csikszentmihalyi arrives at an insight that many of us can intuitively grasp, despite our insistent (and culturally supported) denial of this truth. ![]()
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