Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow- The Psychology of Optimal Experience

3 stars (Important concept, but, badly written book) - The concept is important and the author shows good understanding of optimal experience, i.e., what are the prerequisites, what goes on, what do people feel when they are in flow and the analysis of all of it. Credit goes to the author for all these. But, there are too many awfully written paragraph that will make you wonder if you are wasting time with this book. Especially, initially where it's too verbose and preachy. I guess it badly needs one more (better) editing. 3 stars (Marginal) - My primary complaint is the anoying music between each track. However, it also seemed like it was a very light treatment of the material. This could easily be due to the nature of abridged audio books. But, I would not recomend the audio book. 5 stars (Flow away) - Cziskszentmihalyi introduces an experiential concept that he calls "Flow". He suggests that this experiential state is intricately related to our happiness and explores the central factors that are associated with the phenomena. By comparing various examples of moments of "Flow" and others not of "Flow", the author provides an in depth investigation into this subjective state of mind. Some of the author's scientific research on this topic is also discussed. It is clear that the author is onto something very interesting and important just from the fact that this concept has crept into many books on Psychology in the past few years. The writing is not too technical and is understandable for people who are not experts in the field. Highly recommended! [...] ...
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