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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Csikszentmihalyi M.
New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers; 1990


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. The author uses case studies, controlled experiments, and numerous references to historical figures, philosophers and scientists to prove the point that flow is a singularly productive and desirable state. But the implications for its application to society are what make the book revolutionary.


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