false 66354 9 You have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity. This is "flow," an experience that is at once demanding and rewarding--an experience that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates is one of the most enjoyable and valuable experiences a person can have. The exhaustive case studies, controlled experiments and innumerable references to historical figures, philosophers and scientists through the ages prove Csikszentmihalyi's point that flow is a singularly productive and desirable state. But the implications for its application to society are what make the book revolutionary. 64339 1990 Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience total:889|5:295|4:345|3:200|2:38|1:11| 889 3542 1669 146 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 4 2 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Tue Aug 21 15:47:24 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 15:50:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 0 1 false Wed Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 03:09:30 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 21:23:33 -0700 2008 1
This state of mind can be best described as one where the participant's consciousness is so involved in its activity that self-consciousness disappears, in a way similar to me...more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 0 1 false Mon Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 13:14:01 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 14:29:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 4 1 false Thu Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 30 17:16:49 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 25 07:49:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 4 1 false Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Fri Mar 23 17:11:54 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 24 00:08:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 4 1 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 10 22:32:45 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 23:51:45 -0700 2007
sounds a little dry, but I found it b...more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Mon Jul 13 13:48:40 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 14:02:16 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 5 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 09:12:48 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 09:25:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 4 0 false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 21:04:56 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 17:22:43 -0700 2009 is a very humane science book that takes concepts and discoveries and relates it back to what it is we care about the most: our own happiness. It seems like a rather ambitious goal for a scientist to tackle (I would think philosophy or religion would have been an ...more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 3 0 false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 13:09:34 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 13:26:50 -0700 2009
Flow defines a state of "optimal experience" where a p...more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 4 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Feb 11 14:03:04 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 13:57:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 5 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Aug 13 13:38:24 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 13:38:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 4 0 false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 22:16:44 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 22:35:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 3 1 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 17 12:24:33 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 01 09:50:24 -0700 2007 961640 0712657592 9780712657594 11 2 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179839303m/961640.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/961640.Flow_The_Classic_Work_on_How_to_Achieve_Happiness 2 0 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 16:58:58 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 18:34:38 -0700 2009 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow: The Classic Work on How to Achieve Happiness. Although I found the book entertaining during the first few chapters, reading it became increasingly wary as the chapters passed.

“Flow” as Mr. Csikszentmihalyi defines the term is a ...more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 4 0 false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 17:00:32 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 21:28:44 -0800 2009 Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Sounds like the premise of a self-help book? Not quite. 'mihlayi's c...more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 3 0 false Sat Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 21:36:45 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 20:10:10 -0800 2008
I was really excited to read this book. The first half of the book was so interesting that I was in flow as I read about flow itself. I must say it was unreal. The concept of flow is a very powerful and useful framework to look at what m...more...]]> 2897682 0743525043 9780743525046 4 3 3.98 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2897682.Flow_The_Psychology_Of_Optimal_Experience 3 0 false Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 21:12:46 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 23:21:47 -0800 2008
Aside from the length, the idea of "Flow" and the m...more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 5 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 18:56:38 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 19:06:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 66354 0060920432 9780060920432 849 134 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170649609m/66354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_Experience 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991 Fri Jun 05 23:23:53 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 23:02:45 -0700 2009
Flow is the theory that people are most happy when they are in a state of concentration or complete absorption with the activity at hand.

In an inter...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=100162