Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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born
in Rijeka, Croatia
September 29, 1934
gender
male
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
— published 1990 — 32 editions |
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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
— published 1996 — 10 editions |
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Finding Flow: The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life
— published 1995 — 11 editions |
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The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium
— published 1993 — 8 editions |
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Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
— published 2003 — 12 editions |
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The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Eugene Rochberg-Halton — published 1981 — 2 editions |
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Flow in Sports
— published 1999 — 2 editions |
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Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play
— published 1975 — 2 editions |
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Being Adolescent: Conflict And Growth In The Teenage Years
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Reed Larson — published 1984 — 3 editions |
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Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare For The World Of Work
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Barbara Schneider — published 2000 — 2 editions |
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“If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow: The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow: The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life
“A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“If one has failed to develop curiosity and interest in the early years, it is a good idea to acquire them now, before it is too late to improve the quality of life.
To do so is fairly easy in principle, but more difficult in practice. Yet it is sure worth trying. The first step is to develop the habit of doing whatever needs to be done with concentrated attention, with skill rather than inertia. Even the most routine tasks, like washing dishes, dressing, or mowing the lawn become more rewarding if we approach them with the care it would take to make a work of art. The next step is to transfer some psychic energy each day from tasks that we don’t like doing, or from passive leisure, into something we never did before, or something we enjoy doing but don’t do often enough because it seems too much trouble. There are literally millions of potentially interesting things in the world to see, to do, to learn about. But they don’t become actually interesting until we devote attention to them.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow: The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life
To do so is fairly easy in principle, but more difficult in practice. Yet it is sure worth trying. The first step is to develop the habit of doing whatever needs to be done with concentrated attention, with skill rather than inertia. Even the most routine tasks, like washing dishes, dressing, or mowing the lawn become more rewarding if we approach them with the care it would take to make a work of art. The next step is to transfer some psychic energy each day from tasks that we don’t like doing, or from passive leisure, into something we never did before, or something we enjoy doing but don’t do often enough because it seems too much trouble. There are literally millions of potentially interesting things in the world to see, to do, to learn about. But they don’t become actually interesting until we devote attention to them.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow: The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life
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