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Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 1990
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Book details
- Author
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Published
- 1990
- Pages
- 303
- Language
- English
- ISBN-13
- 9780060162535
- ISBN-10
- 0060162538
- Categories
- Self-help
About this book
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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