Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; born 29 September 1934) is a Hungarian psychologist. He created the psychological concept of flow, a highly focused mental state. He is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. 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...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth29 September 1934
order psychics skills
Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.
psychics feelings able
The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.
believe practice people
..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options.
shortcuts dangerous
But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.
miracle progress answers
Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? The answer seems clear: while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.
motivation mean thinking
What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard the quality of immediate experience, and base their motivation instead on the strongly rooted cultural stereotype of what work is supposed to be like. They think of it as an imposition, a constraint, an infringement of their freedom, and therefore something to be avoided as much as possible.
rich prosperity ifs
If we are so rich, why aren't we happy?
creative gender individual
Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.
happiness successful form
A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.
business mail messages
There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world
business safety evolution
It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%-when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.
finishing closure openness
Shift often from openness to closure.
moving expression way
Find a way to express what moves you.
boredom anxiety flow
A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.