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	Flow (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flow is a mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing, characterized by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity.
		Proposed by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the concept has been widely referenced across a variety of fields.
		Csikszentmihalyi may have been the first to describe this concept in Western Psychology, but as he himself readily acknowledges he was most certainly not the first to notice the psychological phenomenon or to develop techniques based upon it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flow_(psychology) (569 words)

	"Flow" and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Education - Austega (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Csikszentmihalyi has based most of his research on empirical data based on surveying people spontaneously about what the activities they were undertaking and the way they were feeling (along several dimensions) at the time.
		Csikszentmihalyi saw optimal activities in the "flow" channel moving outward as skills are gained, and certainly before apathy sets in - clearly this parallels Vygotsky's theory of proximal development in learning situations.
		Csikszentmihalyi contrasted enjoyment and pleasure, with the latter used to describe the experience of a hot bath or receiving a massage.
	www.austega.com /education/articles/flow.htm (1080 words)

	Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In his seminal work, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Csikszentmihalyi outlines his theory that people are most happy when they are in a state of flow--a Zen-like state of total oneness with the activity at hand and the situation (see Flow (psychology)).
		This is a feeling everyone has at times, characterized by a feeling of great freedom, enjoyment, fulfillment, and skill--and during which temporal concerns (time, food, ego-self, etc.) are typically ignored.
		Gardner, Howard, Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, and Damon, William (2002).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi (377 words)

	The Art of Work
		Csikszentmihalyi was born in Italy; his father, the Hungarian consul there, was sentenced to death in absentia for not returning to Hungary after the Soviet takeover in 1948.
		Csikszentmihalyi spent hours interviewing and observing exceptionally creative people, including leading chess players, rock climbers, composers, and writers, and normal folks as well, as they did their work.
		Csikszentmihalyi, who with his white hair and beard resembles a tall and reticent Santa Claus, discovered that the times when people were most happy and often most productive were not necessarily when they expected they would be.
	www.fastcompany.com /magazine/97/art-of-work.html (2069 words)

	SS > NF reviews > Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
		It is a desirable state, and Csikszentmihalyi (the back-cover blurb helpfully tells us this is pronounced "chick-SENT-me-high") explains why this state is to be sought, and suggests ways of achieving it, even in humdrum tasks, but mainly as new leisure activities.
		Csikszentmihalyi suggests that our increased leisure time would be more satisfyingly spent on high challenge, high skill "flow" activities, rather than our more typical low challenge, low skill, leisure activities that result in boredom and apathy, such as TV watching.
		I don't know if Csikszentmihalyi would approve of these, he seems keen on more "productive" activities, yet they are clearly superior to passive TV watching.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/bib/nf/c/mhlycsks.htm (612 words)

	Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Brain Channels Thinker of the Year - 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced chick-sent-me-high-ee) is chiefly renowned as the architect of the notion of
		Csikszentmihalyi is working with Seligman to engage young leading psychologists to focus on prevention and building human strength.
		Csikszentmihalyi explored the lives of more than 90 of the world's most creative people, such as author Madeline L'Engle and scientist Jonas Salk, to find out how creativity has been a force in their lives.
	www.brainchannels.com /thinker/mihaly.html (430 words)

	Happiness in Everyday Life: The Uses of Experience Sampling
		Csikszentmihalyi, Larson, and Prescott, 1977; Kubey, Larson & Csikszentmihalyi, 1996; Csikszentmihalyi & Schneider, 2001; a handbook for using the ESM is in preparation, see Hektner, in press).
		Participants of this study are primary school students from the Alfred P. Sloan Study of Youth and Social Development, a national multi-year study involving 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th graders from 33 elementary and secondary schools from 12 communities across the country.
		Moneta, G., Schneider, B. and Csikszentmihalyi, M. A longitudinal study of the self-concept and experiential components of self-worth and affect across adolescence.
	www.qlrc.org /pmachine/more.php?id=6_0_1_0_M (3505 words)

	Thoughts About Education: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
		Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D. It has turned out that mass education is more difficult to achieve than we had anticipated.
		To close the gap between the rather dismal reality and earlier expectations, researchers and practitioners have placed their faith in teaching methods modeled on computers and other rational means for conveying information - which in turn were modeled on industrial production techniques and on military human systems design.
		Dr. Csikszentmihalyi is professor of Human Development and Education at the University of Chicago, where he was formerly chairman of the Department of Psychology and Chairman of Human Development.
	www.newhorizons.org /future/Creating_the_Future/crfut_csikszent.html (1130 words)

	Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
		Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced "me-high chick-sent-me-high") outlines how you can achieve flow in many kinds of work and play, from reading to rock climbing.
		Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow examines such timeless issues as the challenge of lifelong learning; family relationships; art, sport and sex as 'flow'; the pain of loneliness; optimal use of free time; and how to make our lives meaningful.
		In summary, Flow: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the key text in the [positive Psychology movement, buy it if you're serious about the pursuit of happiness.
	www.321books.co.uk /reviews/psychology/flow.htm (249 words)

	Good Business: Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning - Leadershop @ LeadershipNow.com
		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.
		Csikszentmihalyi shows how moral responsibility, respect for the environment and clean bathrooms can make a business good and the whole world better.
		Hungarian-born Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the C. and D. Davidson Professor of Psychology at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University and the director of The Quality of Life Research Center, a nonprofit institute that studies "positive psychology," in Claremont, California.
	www.leadershipnow.com /leadershop/3196-8.html (665 words)

	Flow in Web Design--Chapter 2 from Speed Up Your Site (1/5) WebReference.com
		Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a professor and former chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago, pioneered the study of flow.
		Csikszentmihalyi knew that if he could understand what made us tick, he could revolutionize how we work and play.
		Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play (1975; reprint, with a Preface by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000), 36.
	www.webreference.com /programming/optimize/speedup/chap2 (598 words)

	Amazon.com: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning: Books: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the Hungarian-born writer of the bestseller Flow.
		I think Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (who seems to be a great example of his own theory) has something to offer of great value for them.
		Mihaly reviews the concept of "flow" from his earlier studies which is a state where we fully utilize our skills and capabilities and how we are able to reach that state and what inhibits us from reaching it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670031968?v=glance (2608 words)

	Reaching ‘flow’ to optimize work and play
		Csikszentmihalyi, a professor of education and psychology at the University of Chicago, has studied the lives of thousands of people for more than 30 years in search of what makes people’s lives meaningful and satisfying.
		Csikszentmihalyi will participate in a panel discussion on how some of flow’s guiding principles—a positive attitude toward facing challenges, not allowing oneself to be controlled by time, social conventions and material desires—have similarities to the philosophies of Eastern religions.
		Seligman describes Csikszentmihalyi as the world’s leading researcher on a subject that is near and dear to his heart—positive psychology.
	www.apa.org /monitor/jul98/joy.html (880 words)

	College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Renowned author and professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Me-HI CHIK-sent-me-hi) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi will be visiting UNI on Thursday and Friday March 3 and 4.
		Author of bestseller Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Csikszentmihalyi is known worldwide for his scholarship on flow and creativity.
		Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience and Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life.
	fp.uni.edu /csbs/csikszentmihalyi.htm (418 words)

	Amazon.com: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience: Books: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Csikszentmihalyi (psychology, Univ. of Chicago) has for 25 years made similar observations regarding "flow," a field of behavioral science examining connections between satisfaction and daily activities.
		Mihaly's academic treatment of "the zone" or the state of "Flow" is thorough, comprehensive, and clear.
		Csikszentmihalyi gives examples of rock climbers and scuba divers, but the same observation applies to skillful bicyclists riding down steep hills or in urban traffic.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060920432?v=glance (2088 words)

	IWU News
		BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, an authority on the psychology of creativity, will present a public lecture, "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience," in The Ames Library’s Beckman Auditorium at Illinois Wesleyan on Wednesday, November 20, at 7 p.m.
		Csikszentmihalyi has been a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences, and a senior Fulbright fellow in Brazil and New Zealand.
		Csikszentmihalyi’s visit is sponsored by the Illinois Wesleyan chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
	www.iwu.edu /iwunews/newsrlse/jgh97.html (348 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention - Mihaly ...
		The author's objective is to offer an understanding of what leads to these moments, be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab, so that knowledge can be used to enrich people's lives.
		Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is professor and former chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago.
		Dr. Csikszentmihalyi distills and highlights the creative moments in life and how to create more creative moments in your own.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=cw6e5ntAz8&isbn=0060928204&itm=8 (460 words)

	Life Matters - 17/03/1999: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Living Well
		Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a professor and former chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago who has devoted his life's work to the study of what makes people truly happy, satisfied and fulfilled.
		He is chiefly renowned as the architect of the notion of "flow" in creativity; people enter a flow state when they are fully absorbed in activity during which they lose their sense of time and have feelings of great satisfaction.
		The global internetwork established to facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences associated with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's "flow theory".
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/lm/stories/s20047.htm (230 words)

	TIJ Book Review: Creativity, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
		Despite the subtitle, social psychologist Csikszentmihalyi, who invented the idea of ``flow'' and authored a book with that title, writes relatively little about the enjoyable, ego-and time- transcending absorption in a task that is conducive to creativity and high achievement.
		Csikszentmihalyi's objective is to offer readers an understanding of what leads to creative moments so that they can use that knowledge to enrich their own lives.
		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.
	www.innovation.cc /book-reviews/cz.htm (806 words)

	Psychology Today: A Creative Dialog.(Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Robert Epstein discuss creativity)(Interview)@ ...
		Psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Robert Epstein debate the place of creativity in society.
		Csikszentmihalyi believes that society can handle only a select number of truly creative people and that trying to teach creativity gives people the wrong expectations.
		Two of the world's leading experts on creativity, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Robert Epstein, debate the myths that surround this...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:55010316&refid=holomed_1 (211 words)

	Profile - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
		Professor Csikszentmihalyi is the director of the Quality of Life Research Center (QLRC) at the Drucker School.
		The QLRC is a non-profit research institute that studies "positive psychology"; that is, human strengths such as optimism, creativity, intrinsic motivation, and responsibility.
		Professor Csikszentmihalyi is a member of the American Academy of Education, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Leisure Studies.
	www.cgu.edu /print/1871.asp (153 words)

	Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Finding Flow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Moreover, virtually all types of people in all cultures throughout the world tend to sleep about one third of their lives, with the rest of their time divided fairly evenly between traveling, finding and eating food (work), and free leisure, or put another way, cycles of rest, production, consumption, and interaction.
		Not surprisingly, the great conceptual filter and leverage point which Csikszentmihalyi applies is his well-known analysis of the "flow" state (his earlier book, Flow, remains a best-seller).
		Yes, Csikszentmihalyi gives us a roadmap of sorts, describing which time expenditures are more or less likely to lead to flow and other positive consequences.
	www.enlightenment.com /media/bookrevs/findflow.html (722 words)

	Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow with Soul
		Csikszentmihalyi is most well known for his bestselling 1990 book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.
		Csikszentmihalyi describes his life's work as the effort "to study what makes people truly happy." The emphasis here is on the word "truly"—because to him, happiness is not simply flow nor an emotional state nor even the experience of pleasure.
		What compelled us to speak to Dr. Csikszentmihalyi was his constantly evolving understanding of individual human development in the context of evolution.
	www.wie.org /j21/csiksz.asp (384 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In this reading Csikszentmihalyi, a professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago, analyzes the different obstacles human beings face in their struggle to obtain truth and find satisfaction in life.
		In any culture, Mihaly claims, there is a theme of reality being obscured by a deceptive illusion.
		Csikszentmihalyi points to the fact that "Most human groups believe that they are chosen people siturated at the center of the universe, and that their ways of life are better than anyone else's" (48).
	www.westminster.edu /staff/brennie/wpgroup2/veils.html (574 words)

	Real Estate School \| Real Estate Course \| School of Real Estate \| Increase Wealth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced chick-sent-me-high-ee) has a difficult name, but a simple message.
		Csikszentmihalyi describes flow as "being completely involved in an activity for its own sake.
		Drawing upon years of systematic research, he developed the concept of "flow" as a metaphorical description of the rare mental state associated with feelings of optimal satisfaction and fulfillment.
	www.learningannex.com /default.taf?sctn=A&_function=detail&cnum=3314SD&cat= (437 words)

	Amazon.com: The Evolving Self: Books: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An interesting feature of this book is the space provided at the end of each chapter for readers to jot down their thoughts about the issues covered, though libraries might find this problematic.
		Csikszentmihalyi goes beyond the psychobabble and traces human behavior from the beginning of time and shows with great clarity why we do the things we do.
		Complexity is certainly a fashionable catchword but again Mihaly makes it graspable and human, a practical tool, so to speak, because the final principle of evolution is an increase in both differentiation and integration...
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060921927?v=glance (2122 words)

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