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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Evolving Self

Editura: Harper Perennial

Anul aparitiei: 1994

The author of the bestselling Flow (more than 125,000 copies sold) offers an intelligent, inspiring guide to life in the future.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

Editura: Harper Perennial

Anul aparitiei: 1997

Using the theories put forth in his bestselling book "Flow", Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explains the creative process, providing readers with lessons on how to tap into their own creativity through the examples of nearly 100 people whose achievements have changed our world.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Editura: Harper Perennial

Anul aparitiei: 2008

"Csikszentmihalyi arrives at an insight that many of us can intuitively grasp, despite our insistent (and culturally supported) denial of this truth. That is, it is not what happens to us that determines our happiness, but the manner in which we make sense of that reality. . . . The manner in which Csikszentmihalyi integrates research on consciousness, personal psychology and spirituality is illuminating." --Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe bestselling classic that holds the key to unlocking meaning, creativity, peak performance, and true happiness. Legendary 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. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. 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. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience teaches how, by ordering the information that enters our consciousness, we can ...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Editura: Penguin Books

Anul aparitiei: 2004

Since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi published the groundbreaking Flow more than a decade ago, world leaders such as Tony Blair and former President Clinton, and influential sports figures like Super Bowl champion coach Jimmy Johnson have all been inspired by the book. In today's corporate upheaval, a new business paradigm is evolving. While many CEOs are being exposed for their greed, truly visionary leaders believe in a goal that benefits themselves as well as others. They realize that it is their vision and "soul" that attract loyal employees willing to go above and beyond the call of corporate duty. And their employees are realizing the same thing: while 80 percent of adults claim they'd work even if they didn't have to, the majority of them can hardly wait to leave their jobs and get home.Good Business starts with the premise that this is an age in which business and work have replaced religion and politics as central forces in contemporary life. The book reveals how business leaders, managers, and even employees can find their "flow" and contribute not only to their own happiness, but also to a just and evolving society. It identifies the factors crucial to the operation of a good ...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life

Editura: Basic Books

Anul aparitiei: 1998

From the bestselling author of Flow and one of the pioneers of the scientific study of happiness, an indispensable guide to living your best life. What makes a good life? Is it money? An important job? Leisure time? Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi believes our obsessive focus on such measures has led us astray. Work fills our days with anxiety and pressure, so that during our free time, we tend to live in boredom, absorbed by our screens. What are we missing? To answer this question, Csikszentmihalyi studied thousands of people, and he found the key. People are happiest when they challenge themselves with tasks that demand a high degree of skill and commitment, and which are undertaken for their own sake. Instead of scrolling on your phone, play the piano. Take a routine chore and figure out how to do it better, faster, more efficiently. In short, learn the hidden power of complete engagement, a psychological state the author calls flow. Though they appear simple, the lessons in Finding Flow are life-changing.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon, Howard Gardner

Good Work

Editura: Basic Books

Anul aparitiei: 2002

What does it mean to carry out "good work"? What strategies allow people to maintain moral and ethical standards at a time when market forces have unprecedented power and work life is being radically altered by technological innovation? These questions lie at the heart of this eagerly awaited new book. Focusing on genetics and journalism-two fields that generate and manipulate information and thus affect our lives in myriad ways-the authors show how in their quest to build meaningful careers successful professionals exhibit "humane creativity," high-level performance coupled with social responsibility. Over the last five years the authors have interviewed over 100 people in each field who are engaged in cutting-edge work, probing their goals and visions, their obstacles and fears, and how they pass on their most cherished practices and values. They found sharp contrasts between the two fields. Until now, geneticists' values have not been seriously challenged by the demands of their work world, while journalists are deeply disillusioned by the conflict between commerce and ethics. The dilemmas these professionals face and the strategies they choose in their search for a moral ...

Susan Jackson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Susan A. Jackson

Flow in Sports

Editura: Human Kinetics Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 1999

The experience of flow is still one of the least understood phenomena in sport. And yet it is one of the richest, most memorable experiences an athlete will ever know.Some call it a natural high. Others refer to it as being in a zone. Whatever it's called, flow is an elusive and very sought-after psychological state that athletes, coaches, and sport psychologists have tried to understand, harness, and employ to their benefit since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi first coined the term back in the early 1970s. Now, in the first book devoted exclusively to flow in sports, the pioneering legend Csikszentmihalyi and sport psychology researcher Susan Jackson attempt not only to explain the phenomenon but also to identify the key conditions associated with its occurrence.The book begins with a description of what flow is and is not. Flow is defined as a person's total absorption into an activity. While it is always a peak, satisfying experience, it is not necessarily associated with peak performance on every occasion. Most of the book delves deeply into the key factors leading up to and accompanying the flow experience. The authors also recommend certain actions on the part of the athlete or ...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Editura: Nightingale-Conant Corporation

Anul aparitiei: 2002

SUCCESS CAN BE YOURS WITH MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI'S FLOW The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs gives you the tools to unleash the secret of peak performance. Remember the last time that you were so focused, so motivated that you felt at the absolute top of your form -- alert, energized and free of self-consciousness? Chances are you were experiencing flow -- an almost euphoric state of concentration and complete involvement. Now, esteemed psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi reveals how you can achieve this state of mind at will -- and turn everyday experience into a moment by moment opportunity for joy and self-fulfillment. Drawing on over 30 years of breakthrough research into what makes people satisfied, he explains the key elements of the flow experience, including how to: Use flow to release yourself from anxiety and boredom Redirect your energy and take control Set clear goals Harmonize all the elements of your life

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Editor)

A Life Worth Living: Contributions to Positive Psychology

Editura: OXFORD UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2006

A Life Worth Living brings together the latest thought on Positive Psychology from an international cast of scholars. It includes historical, philosophical, and empirical reviews of what psychologists have found to matter for personal happiness and well-being. The contributions to this volume agree on priciples of optimal development that start from purely material and selfish concerns, but then lead to ever broader circles of responsibility embracing the goals of others and the well-being of the environment; on the importance of spirituality; on the development of strengths specific to the individual. Rather than material success, popularity, or power, the investigations reported in this volume suggest that personally constructed goals, intrinsic motivation, and a sense of autonomy are much more important. The chapters indicate that hardship and suffering do not necessarily make us unhappy, and they suggest therapeutical implications for improving the quality of life. Specific topics covered include the formation of optimal childhood values and habits as well as a new perspective on aging. This volume provides a powerful counterpoint to a mistakenly reductionist psychology. They ...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Author)

Being Adolescent: Conflict and Growth in the Teenage Years

Editura: BASIC BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 1986

To find out what teenagers' lives are like, two psychologists gave beepers to seventy-five adolescents, signaled them at random, and asked them to record their thoughts and feelings as they sat in classrooms, socialized with friends, and ate dinner with their families. The result is a unique and detailed portrait of the day-to-day world of the average American teenager that offers valuable new insights for parents, psychologists, and educators.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Author)

Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work

Editura: BASIC BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2001

How do young people envision their occupational futures? What do teenagers feel about their schooling and after-school work, and how do these experiences affect their passage to adult work? These are the questions that psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and sociologist Barbara Schneider posed in their five-year study of adolescents. The results provide an unprecedented window on society's future through which we can glimpse how today's youth are preparing themselves for the lives they will lead in the decades to come.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Editor)

Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness

Editura: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2012

What constitutes enjoyment of life? Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness offers a comprehensive survey of theoretical and empirical investigations of the "flow" experience, a desirable or optimal state of consciousness that enhances a person's psychic state. "Flow" can be said to occur when people are able to meet the challenges of their environment with appropriate skills, and accordingly feel a sense of well-being, a sense of mastery, and a heightened sense of self-esteem. The authors show the diverse contexts and circumstances in which flow is reported in different cultures (e.g. Japan, Korea, Australia, Italy), and describe its positive emotional impacts. They reflect on the concept of flow vis-à-vis modern social structures, historical phenomena, and evolutionary biocultural selection. The ways in which the ability to experience flow affects work satisfaction, academic success, and the overall quality of life are suggested; and the childrearing practices that result in the ability to derive enjoyment from life, considered.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Author)

The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self

Editura: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 1981

The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelings about common household objects, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton provide a unique perspective on materialism, American culture, and the self. They begin by reviewing what social scientists and philosophers have said about the transactions between people and things. In the model of 'personhood' that the authors develop, goal-directed action and the cultivation of meaning through signs assume central importance. They then relate theoretical issues to the results of their survey. An important finding is the distinction between objects valued for action and those valued for contemplation. The authors compare families who have warm emotional attachments to their homes with those in which a common set of positive meanings is lacking, and interpret the different patterns of involvement. They then trace the cultivation of meaning in case studies of four families. Finally, the authors address what ...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Author)

Talented Teenagers: The Roots of Success and Failure

Editura: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 1996

Talented Teenagers is a fascinating and absorbing examination of what makes adolescents tick: what roles personality traits, family interactions, education, and the social environment play in a young person's motivation to develop his or her talent. Vivid descriptions in the students' own words bring the material to life. Parents, teachers, psychologists, and counselors will find in these pages concrete information abou the conditions that foster the cultivation of mental abilities in adolescence, for both the gifted and the average student.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Author)

Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play

Editura: JOSSEY BASS

Anul aparitiei: 2000

Now in a special 25th anniversary edition and filled with brilliant wisdom and insights, Beyond Boredom and Anxiety offers a timeless introduction to the concept of flow and the scientific basis behind it-all through the work of one of the field's great scientists, Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi. Through real-life examples, discover how enjoyable activities provide a common experience-a satisfying, often exhilarating, feeling of creative accomplishment and heightened functioning-and under what conditions 'serious' work can also provide this intrinsic enjoyment.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Author)

Conditions for Optimal Development in Adolescence: An Experiential Approach: A Special Issue of Applied Developmental Science

Editura: LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOC INC

Anul aparitiei: 2001

Published in 2001, Conditions for Optimal Development in Adolescence is a valuable contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Author)

The Art of Seeing: An Interpretation of the Aesthetic Encounter

Editura: J P GETTY TRUST PUBN

Anul aparitiei: 1991

What is the nature of the aesthetic experience? Is it the same for everyone? It is possible to facil

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Author)

Fluir (Flow): Una Psicologia de La Felicidad

Editura: EDIT KAIROS

Anul aparitiei: 2005

Flow is an optimal state of being in which active concentration and absorbtion in creative activity leads to the sense of completely suspended time--one is alert, energized, and free of self-consciousness. Through an extensive amount of case studies, controlled experiments, and research of historical figures, this study illustrates that flow is a singularly productive and desirable state. Instructions are included for reaching a state of flow and using it to release anxiety and boredom, set goals, and redirect energy to take control of one's life. En la vida, cada persona siente de vez en cuando un estado de experiencia óptima, eso momentos en los que uno se siente poseído por un profundo sentimiento de gozo creativo, de concentración activa, de absorción en lo que se está haciendo. Como resultado de investigaciones sicológicas, este libro explica que el meollo de la "experiencia óptima" es un estado de conciencia al que denomina fluir. También explica cómo este fluir puede ser controlado y provocado, cómo uno puede ajustar sus energías y sus habilidades a los retos concretos de la vida.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Author)

El Yo Evolutivo: Una Psicologia Para un Mundo Globalizado

Editura: EDIT KAIROS

Anul aparitiei: 2009

An attempt to transcend evolutionary determinism, this perceptive book offers suggestions for breaking the control of genetically programmed behaviors, such as being obsessed with food or sex, which threaten, instead of further, survival. The proposed solution is to concentrate on stimulating activities that make one feel in tune with the surrounding world and free from cultural illusions, thus helping reduce oppression, exploitation, and injustice. Un intento a trascender el determinismo de la herencia evolutiva, este libro perceptivo ofrece sugerencias para romper el control de los comportamientos genéticamente programados, como las obsesiones con la comida o el sexo, los cuales amenazan, en vez de avanzar, la supervivencia. La solución, según el autor, es concentrarse en actividades estimulantes que le hagan sentirse a uno equilibrado con el mundo que le rodea y liberado de ilusiones culturales al fin de ayudar reducir la opresión, la explotación o la injusticia.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Author)

Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention

Editura: PERENNIAL

Anul aparitiei: 2013

"Although the benefits of this study to scholars are obvious, this thought-provoking mixture of scholarly and colloquial will enlighten inquisitive general readers, too." -- Library Journal (starred review)The classic study of the creative process from the bestselling author of Flow.Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ("The leading researcher into 'flow states.'" -- Newsweek) reveals what leads to these moments--be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab--so that this knowledge can be used to enrich people's lives. Drawing on nearly one hundred interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists, to politicians and business leaders, to poets and artists, as well as his thirty years of research on the subject, Csikszentmihalyi uses his famous flow theory to explore the creative process. He discusses such ideas as why creative individuals are often seen as selfish and arrogant, and why the "tortured genius" is largely a myth. Most important, he explains why creativity needs to be cultivated and is necessary for the future of our country, if not the ...