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Flow : the psychology of optimal experience / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
Van Pelt Library BF575.H27 C85 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Happiness.
- Attention.
- Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 303 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First HarperPerennial Classics edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperPerennial, 2008, c1990.
- Summary:
- Sychologist 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 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.
- Contents:
- 1 Happiness Revisited 1
- The Roots of Discontent 8
- The Shields of Culture 10
- Reclaiming Experience 16
- Paths of Liberation 20
- 2 The Anatomy of Consciousness 23
- The Limits of Consciousness 28
- Attention as Psychic Energy 30
- Enter the Self 33
- Disorder in Consciousness: Psychic Entropy 36
- Order in Consciousness: Flow 39
- Complexity and the Growth of the Self 41
- 3 Enjoyment and the Quality of Life 43
- Pleasure and Enjoyment 45
- The Elements of Enjoyment 48
- The Autotelic Experience 67
- 4 The Conditions of Flow 71
- Flow Activities 72
- Flow and Culture 77
- The Autotelic Personality 83
- The People of Flow 90
- 5 The Body in Flow 94
- Higher, Faster, Stronger 96
- The Joys of Movement 99
- Sex as Flow 100
- The Ultimate Control: Yoga and the Martial Arts 103
- Flow through the Senses: The Joys of Seeing 106
- The Flow of Music 108
- The Joys of Tasting 113
- 6 The Flow of Thought 117
- The Mother of Science 120
- The Rules of the Games of the Mind 124
- The Play of Words 128
- Befriending Clio 132
- The Delights of Science 134
- Loving Wisdom 138
- Amateurs and Professionals 139
- The Challenge of Lifelong Learning 141
- 7 Work As Flow 143
- Autotelic Workers 144
- Autotelic Jobs 152
- The Paradox of Work 157
- The Waste of Free Time 162
- 8 Enjoying Solitude and Other People 164
- The Conflict between Being Alone and Being with Others 165
- The Pain of Loneliness 168
- Taming Solitude 173
- Flow and the Family 175
- Enjoying Friends 185
- The Wider Community 190
- 9 Cheating Chaos 192
- Tragedies Transformed 193
- Coping with Stress 198
- The Power of Dissipative Structures 201
- The Autotelic Self: A Summary 208
- 10 The Making of Meaning 214
- What Meaning Means 215
- Cultivating Purpose 218
- Forging Resolve 223
- Recovering Harmony 227
- The Unification of Meaning in Life Themes 230.
- Notes:
- Includes Reader's guide.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-303).
- ISBN:
- 0061339202
- 9780061339202
- OCLC:
- 879944009
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