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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Finding Flow</em> is a more engaging and practical view of the ideas Csikzentmihalyi introduces in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" title=" Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience"> Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience</a>.  Definitely treading the fine line between good general psychology book and self-help.  When I'm feeling in a bit of an existential funk, it's nice to pick this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10605526">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book.  Along similar lines of the books Stumbling on Happiness and The Happiness Hypothesis,  Finding Flow describes tools that contribute to a paradigm shift that help improve quality of life.   Happiness is a loaded word, coming with all sorts of connotations depending on who is defini...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76936278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Main message: don't be lazy and sit in front of the TV all day--be involved with life. Live. Be engaged with what you do, and do things that you like. I read this a chunk at a time, so it took forever, but I enjoyed thinking about the ideas presented.<br/><br/>Interesting thoughts on work and leis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59832326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This so explains how I and some of my kids can sit down to read, and come up for air when the bell rings, with no concept of where the time went. I have talked to my kids about this, and told them about this concept of flow...they nod, understanding that's what happens to them when they read...<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40724569">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reading this book 5 years ago, but I stopped (for whatever reason) in the middle. Recently I took it out of the bookshelf and finished it. This book may be described as an &quot;abridged&quot; version of the original book, FLOW, by the same author. It is some sort of &quot;highbrow&quot; s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58180600">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up because I'd started Csikszentmihalyi earlier and better -known <em>Flow</em>, found it interesting, and then had to return it to the library. This book seems to say the same things, but with more touchy-feely-self-helpy-philosophiness, as the title suggests.<br/><br/>If you've read even ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44250648">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A quick and interesting read. I like that the concept of &quot;flow&quot; is something I typically practice, whether I had a term for it or not, and this book has given me insight on how to increase this flow in life. With a background in psychology, I appreciated that aspect of the book. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very accessible, condensed, and practical view of the author's ideas. A great portal to explore his ideas, which are developed in greater depth by his other books.  Another reason to start with this book- the back cover tells you how to pronounce his name. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is, i think, a companion or loose sequel to another book, Flow. I wish I had read Flow, because finding flow is pretty crappy without a proper description of its main topic, IE, flow. It is mostly a soc-ec review of who and where Flow is found.<br/><br/>So, uh, boring.<br/><br/>Oh well...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the few times where I wish I could add error bars to my rating. <br/><br/>I suspect that what I really wanted to read was the author's previous book, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" title=" Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience"> Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience</a>. This one seems to assume that you are already convinced that flow is a universally good ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34379141">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1998)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Updates on the study of flow. My work is cited in this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reading this for BabyBodyBirth. Someday I'll finish it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a very interesting person, besides being a tongue-twister. He developed the concept of &quot;flow&quot; -- the idea that people are most satisfied, most engaged and most fulfilled when they are in a state of being that challenges them and absorbs them so much that they los...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4703383">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as Flow.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am almost finished with this book. I find I have been struggling with the author's assertion that people that report engagement in things they do (flow) don't necessarily report happiness. It makes me think of the Seligman research on happiness. I am wondering if what Mihaly is talking about is a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22965706">more...</a>]]></body>
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