This classic popular psychology title explains how, by altering our perspective, we can achieve happiness, dispel disharmony and enter a state of perfect equilibrium - a state of 'flow'
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was Claremont Graduate University's
Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management, and former
chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of
Chicago. For the past thirty years, up until he died in 2021, he
was involved in research on topics related to optimal experience or
"flow." He was the author of 18 books, which have been translated
into more than 20 languages. Interest in his work outside academia
has been shown by substantial articles in Psychology Today, the New
York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Omni, Die
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Focus, Newsweek, and others.
Dr. Csikszentmihalyi was a member of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Leisure Sciences.
He was a Senior Fulbright Fellow and sat on several boards,
including the Board of Advisers for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
He appeared on a number of foreign television networks, such as the
BBC and RAI (Italian television), and took part in several hourlong
segments of "Nova".
[He] has done more than anyone else to study this state of
effortless attending
*Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow*
Elegantly written...it is more relevant than ever
*The Times*
Mr Csikszentmihalyi illuminates the accuracy of what philosophers
have been saying for centuries: that the way to happiness lies not
in mindless hedonism but in mindful challenge
*The New York Times*
[He] has done more than anyone else to study this state of
effortless attending
*Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow*
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