Flow : the psychology of optimal experience /
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 w...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper Perennial,
2008.
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| Edition: | First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. |
| Series: | Harper Perennial modern classics.
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| Item Description: | Includes reader's guide. |
Table of 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.