Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason." His works are influential and are widely cited. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Csikszentmihalyi once said: "Repression is not the way to virtue. Martin Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association, described Csikszentmihalyi as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology. He is the author of many books and over 290 articles or book chapters.
Csikszentmihalyi is noted for his work in the study of happiness and creativity, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic. He is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College. He is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. He recognized and named the psychological concept of flow, a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (born 29 September 1934) is a Hungarian-American psychologist. Also includes chapters on Happiness Revisited The Anatomy of Consciousness Enjoyment and the Quality of Life The Conditions of Flow The Body in Flow The Flow of Thought Work as Flow Enjoying Solitude and Other People Cheating Chaos and The Making of Meaning. Arthur Tress (Cover photograph) (illustrator). The book is internally clean with no markings or highlighting. There is a corner crease to the lower left corner of the back cover. I have tried to present the results of psychological research, and the ideas derived from the interpretation of such research, in a way that any educated reader can evaluate and apply to his/her life, regardless of specialized background knowledge.
This book tries instead to present general principles, along with concrete examples of how some people have used these principles, to transform boring and meaningless lives into one's full of enjoyment. To do so would be impossible in any case, since a joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. What follows, however, is not a popular book that gives insider tips about how to be happy. This book summarizes decades of research on the positive aspects of human experience-joy, creativity, the process of total involvement with life I call flow.
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