Flow: the classic work on how to achieve happiness

By: Csikszentmihalyi, MihalyPublication details: London Rider 2002Description: xii, 303 pISBN: 9780712657594Subject(s): Happiness - Psychological aspects | Happiness | Self - ActualizationDDC classification: 158 Summary: This classic work on happiness presents the general principles that have enabled real people to transform boring and meaningless lives into ones full of enjoyment. It introduces the phenomenon of 'flow' - a state of joy, creativity, and total involvement, in which problems seem to disappear and there is an exhilarating feeling of transcendence. We each have the potential to experience flow, whether at work, at play or in our relationships.
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Table of Contents:

1.Happiness revisited

2.Anatomy of consciousness

3.Enjoyment and the quality of life

4.Conditions of flow

5.Body in flow

6.Flow of thought

7.Work as flow

8.Enjoying solitude and other people

9.Cheating chaos

10.Making of meaning.

This classic work on happiness presents the general principles that have enabled real people to transform boring and meaningless lives into ones full of enjoyment. It introduces the phenomenon of 'flow' - a state of joy, creativity, and total involvement, in which problems seem to disappear and there is an exhilarating feeling of transcendence. We each have the potential to experience flow, whether at work, at play or in our relationships.

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