Flow the psychology of optimal experience by mihaly csikszentmihalyi torrent

Flow the psychology of optimal experience by mihaly csikszentmihalyi torrent free#

In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi ('the leading researcher into 'flow states' -Newsweek) demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance. Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies Of Flow In Consciousness Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies Of Flow In Consciousness.During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. THE BESTSELLING CLASSIC ON 'FLOW' - THE KEY TO UNLOCKING MEANING, CREATIVITY, PEAK PERFORMANCE, AND TRUE HAPPINESSLegendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of 'optimal experience' have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. Have you read Flow?В Will you? When do you achieve flow at work? How can you make your work more like a good game, that supports you getting into flow? How can you multitask less, to achieve flow more? IвЂ™d love to read your answers. Perhaps needless to say, I highly recommend FlowtoВ anyone who wants to achieve the peak of lifeвЂ“at work and elsewhere.

вЂњThe more a job inherently resembles a gameвЂ“with variety, appropriate and flexible challenges, clear goals, and immediate feedbackвЂ“the more enjoyable it will be.вЂќ Tying games and work together, Csikszentmihalyi says work can be a better experience when itвЂ™s more like a game. вЂњIn fact, working people achieve the flow experienceвЂ“deep concentration, high and balanced challenges and skills, a sense of control and satisfactionвЂ“about four times as often on their jobs, proportionately, as they do when they are watching television.вЂќ

Flow the psychology of optimal experience by mihaly csikszentmihalyi torrent free#

While many of us think of work as a burden and our free time as happy time,В Csikszentmihalyi (and I) believes that the right work provides ample opportunities for thriving. (As many of you know, my career has largely been leading the design and development of games, and IвЂ™m currently working on a game that teaches the science of thriving at work.) The author writes how вЂњeven routine details can be transformed into personally meaningful games that provide optimal experiences.вЂќД«ut we donвЂ™t have to be playing games to achieve flow. Part of why I enjoyed Flow so much is the repeated connection thatВ Csikszentmihalyi makes between optimal experience and games. But itвЂ™s worth focusing completely on a challenge because doing so helps us to achieve flow.В Csikszentmihalyi writes вЂњThe shape and content of life depend on how attention has been usedвЂ¦attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experienceвЂ¦attention shapes the self, and is in turn shaped by it.вЂќ Much easier said than done in this distracting world we live in. So how do we get to this amazing state of mind? By focusing. You have no spare cycles to think вЂњAm I doing this right?вЂќ or вЂњDo I need to get milk on the way home?вЂќВ Csikszentmihalyi writes that flow is вЂњThe state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.вЂќ Because you are the edge of your ability, it takes all of your mental energy to make progress. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.вЂќ Flow is вЂњthe zoneвЂќ вЂ“that almost magical state of mind where you become completely absorbed in something very challenging, but possible. As FlowВ says вЂњThe best moments usually occur when a personвЂ™s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. What Csikszentmihalyi and his colleagues found was not relaxation. While we imagine total relaxation as the peak of life, we are often quite bad at predicting our own happiness. Csikszentmihalyi (he coaches us to say вЂњchick-sent-me-highвЂќ to get close to the correct pronunciation) and his colleagues were after the very peak of life asking, when we are thriving the most, what are we doing?В What many of us imagine is pure relaxation: let me lie on a beach for weeks on end, sipping beverages and nibbling grapes, and surely this would be the peak of life.В This illustratesВ why we all need the scienceВ of happiness. It was published in 1990 by one of the founding fathers of positive psychology, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, after he had already led decades of research on вЂњoptimal experienceвЂќ.

In the positive psychology world, Flow is a classic book, and for good reason.