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Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life (Masterminds Series) Paperback – April 6, 1998

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From 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, watching TV or absorbed by our phones.

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 watching television, 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.

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"Csikszentmihalyi eloquently argues that living fully in the here and now requires that one heed the lessons of the past"―New York Times Book Review

"This famous psychologist of 'peak experience' returns to the themes of his 1990 classic, Flow, how to reach the peak through focused energy, and how humans mark the universe in unique ways-but this time the explanation is shorter, sharper, and far more accessible."―Utne Reader

"Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has a genius for illuminating phenomena that perplex most behavioral scientists. In this brilliant synthesis, he shows how all of us can enhance our work, our play, our lives."―Howard Gardner, author of Multiple Intelligences

"Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a man obsessed by happiness."―Richard Flaste, New York Times Magazine

About the Author

Mihaly Csikszentmihaly is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University and the founder and co-director of the Quality of Life Research Center. He is the author of a number of books, including the bestselling Flow, The Evolving Self, Creativity, and Being Adolescent. He lives in Claremont, California

Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Basic Books; 1st edition (April 6, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780465024117
ISBN-13: 978-0465024117
ASIN: 0465024114
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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Average Customer Review: 95 customer reviews
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Citris1

Read Flow and skip this one.

July 12, 2016

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This is a reduced version of the book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (which was excellent.). If you read the first book you won't get much from this one.

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Joshua A Zink

Misleading Title

April 28, 2018

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A very scant read that hardly delivers on its title. This book focuses primarily on how flow can improve and add meaning to your life. This book does not give much insight on how to create flow or give you much instruction or tools for establishing more flow in your life. Had I known what the book was really about I probably would've skipped this version and just read Csikszentmihalyi's original book on flow.

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Gilles Mathurin

Interesting but a little disappointing

May 16, 2015

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This book contains useful informations about who, when, where people experience Flow, therefore it gives you some hint to find it. Nevertheless it is quite a high overview or general approach on how to find it. It lacks tactical means to find it, more practical ways or method someone can experiment with …

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Drake Rice

A fantastic book and a must read.

July 20, 2018

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Mihaly is one of the truly great minds our time. The book Finding Flow is a less academic (and shorter) version of Mihaly great book: "Flow", which for me is one of the best books I've ever read. Finding Flow offers great insights in how we can get the most from targeted life goals or simple everyday tasks. I wish I would have read this book when I was in high school or college. This book can have a great positive impact on your life.

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A psychology book that nails what makes for a good life

August 28, 2003

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"Finding Flow" is the popular presentation of the author's academic research into what he calls "flow" - the state of being absorbed in an activity; be it work, a hobby or a relationship - and how such experiences form the basis of a rich life.
Csikszentmihalyi goes over the nature of what we experience and classifies them according to the level of challenge vs. the skill we can bear upon them. He then discusses how we feel when doing these different types of activities. The two core chapters cover work and leisure. Csikszentmihalyi shows how engagement with ones job and pursuing active hobbies provide more personal satisfaction than passive entertainment and mere lounging. It is this notion that will clash with many people's belief in what makes them happy; happiness being something that Csikszentmihalyi considers a fleeting emotion and different from true contentment. As has been noted by the philosopher A.C. Grayling, if we are after happiness alone, then we can just self-medicate.
Other chapters examine how relationships are better if you engage in them, rather than merely meet material obligations to loved ones, and what kinds of personalities are better suited to achieving flow. There is a chapter, as well as some discussion throughout, on how to increase flow in your own life. This gives the book an additional self-help angle (which is what the back cover is trying to market it as.) The final chapter begins with some light philosophizing and quickly degenerates into an off-topic discussion of religion, lacking a thesis and coming across as the ramblings of a stoned first-year college student. This is unfortunate in that it mars an otherwise very strong treatment of what constitutes a good life.

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Dr J ReadsTop Contributor: Poetry Books

Accessible and Interesting

August 20, 2017

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A fascinating book about the way we work. I recommend this as a text for education, psychology, and readers who are generally interested in the topic. The content was pretty accessible too.

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Hans Fugal

Interesting but not HOWTO

April 3, 2009

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It's a very interesting read and one that makes you think. It serves very well as motivation/inspiration for finding more flow in your life. But if you already have that desire, it won't do much to help you actually find more flow. As I read it I came up with a few ideas for improving the amount of flow in my life, but no great breakthroughs.

In short, it's an interesting and motivating read but it's not a practical guide to implementing it.

It does give you the basics, though, if you can figure out how to apply them. The basics are no secret, though: eliminate distractions and focus even if you don't want to. Easier said than done, of course.

I'd recommend it to anyone, especially those who may not have figured out that happiness is in the doing not the getting.

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frank

Good overall message, lot of filler

July 4, 2019

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The book takes a long time to get to the main content in one of the last chapters. Most of the rest of the book is filler. Good overall message but a long read for what amounted to only a few pages of useful info.

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