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Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet

6 reviews
Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, ...

Basic Books, 2002

lonely work
I am a special education teacher and bought this book so I could better understand why some teachers refuse to give learning disabled a chance. I wanted to better understand how some teachers forget the commitment they have to the students they serve. Well, I wished I never read the book. I now understand why people are not commited to their jobs and why administrators asked teachers to "fake" ...

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

22 reviews
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Harper Perennial, 1997

The Real Facts About Creative People
Few activities are a misunderstood by the general public as inventing and creativity. Sadly, Hollywood and television often portray the great inventor, scientist or musician as some sort of "mad genius". This book seeks to put the study of creativity on a rational basis. For the purposes of this book, creativity is defined as "... to bring into existence something genuinely new that is valued ...

Everyday Creativity and New Views of Human Nature: Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Perspectives

2 reviews

American Psychological Association (APA), 2007

If You Want to Be Creative
An outstanding book. It has given me new insights into creativity. Having read many books on the subject, I feel its consideration of Asian as well as Western ideas about creativity supplies a fresh perspective. It also taught me practical ways of improving my own work, an almost-finished historical novel about British India, the field of my Harvard Ph.D. in history. Which brings me to another ...

A Life Worth Living: Contributions to Positive Psychology (Series in Positive Psychology)

1 review

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

Perfect Positive Psychology
As a student of any field, one should have all the books of the leaders in that field. This book is a must have for anyone interested in positive psychology or simply a healthy, positive outlook on life. Anyone wanting to improve the quality of their thinking abilities should read this book. All students in the field of psychology should have this in their library, and NOT sell it back!

Flow in Sports

10 reviews
Susan A. Jackson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Human Kinetics Publishers, 1999

Flow 101 - the practical guide
Flow in Sports by Susan A. Jackson is a well written, clear, practical manual that offers well grounded advice to any level athlete. This is the best book I have seen on the topic since the original classic by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi because it delivers the concepts without fanfare. Flow is just another practical took for the modern day athlete, the same as good nutrition and dedicated practice ...

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

107 reviews
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Harper Perennial, 1991

Welcome to the Flow!
I stumbled upon Flow and was pleasantly surprised. The book, based on extensive research into the nature of happiness and man's most fulfilling moments, promises to provide steps towards enhancing the quality of life. With many examples and concrete suggestions, I found that it delivered to an impressive degree. From the appreciation of art and science, the deepening of friendships and ...

Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

14 reviews
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004

Finding Flow at Work
Artists, when describing the act of painting a masterpiece, will often claim that they felt "lost" in their work. Likewise, a basketball player may describe the experience of setting up the winning play as having an altered perception of time, as if twelve seconds actually extended for hours. When we are truly engaged and at the highest states of enjoyment, we experience the freedom of complete ...

Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare For The World Of Work

1 review
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Barbara Schneider

Basic Books, 2001

becoming ADULT: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work
There are those who believe that, if they are not their kids they are not their concern. Just how wrong, even potentially destructive, a mindset is underscored by the data presented in becoming ADULT: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work. This book is of immeasurable value to all but most highly recommended for parents and those even remotely involved in the educational process. Having ...

Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life (Masterminds Series)

39 reviews
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Basic Books, 1998

An interesting work of social science
This book is about what makes people happy. It is not really a self-help book, or a 'mind/body/spirit' type of book, which I think has led to some confusion and disappointment on the part of some of the reviewers here. The book does not really tell you how to find flow. It simply describes what it is, and why people who regularly experience it tend to be happier than people who do not. I like ...

The Evolving Self

18 reviews
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Harper Perennial, 1994

A new landmark for the third millenium
Flow experiences, human peak experiences and high synergetic states are introduced in such an original and practical way in this book that, while readind it, one really experiences flow. Genes are the information units of life; they are associated with the genetic code, while "memes" are the equivalent information units when dealing with consciousness, with mind, with the noosphere, and they ...

Experience Sampling Method: Measuring the Quality of Everyday Life
Joel M. Hektner, Jennifer A. Schmidt, ...

Sage Publications, Inc, 2006

Experience Sampling Method: Measuring the Quality of Everyday Life is the first book to bring together the theoretical foundations and practical applications of this indispensable methodology. Authors Joel M. Hektner, Jennifer A. Schmidt, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi provide fascinating information for anyone interested in how people go about their daily lives. Key Features: Provides a step-by-step guide: In nontechnical prose, the book ...

Talented Teenagers: The Roots of Success and Failure (Cambridge Studies in Social & Emotional Development)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Kevin Rathunde, ...

Cambridge University Press, 1996

Talented Teenagers is a fascinating and absorbing examination of what makes adolescents tick: what roles personality traits, family interactions, education, and the social environment play in a young person's motivation to develop his or her talent. Vivid descriptions in the students' own words bring the material to life. Parents, teachers, psychologists, and counselors will find in these pages concrete information abou the conditions that ...

The Art of Seeing: An Interpretation of the Aesthetic Encounter

2 reviews
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Rick E. Robinson

Getty Publications, 1991

Insightful study of visual art and the aesthetic experience
"The Art of Seeing" is a study of the aesthetic experience through the lens of Csikszentmihalyi's "flow" theory of experiences which, somewhat ironically, have been given the technical description of autotelic experiences. The text begins with a discussion of some philosophy and psychology of art that leads into the development of a conceptual model of the aesthetic experience built around the ...

Being Adolescent: Conflict And Growth In The Teenage Years

2 reviews
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Reed Larson

Basic Books, 1986

Interesting insight into adolescent life
Have you wondered what it is like to be an adolescent? Day in and day out? Dealing with the daily details of life at home and at school? Are you a parent, teacher, or other adult who wants to learn about what goes on inside the adolescents you interact with? This book describes a great approach to answering these questions using an innovative research protocol. Adolescents were asked to ...

Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness

2 reviews

Cambridge University Press, 1992

Engagement- the downfall of corporate America- is flow
In this book, readers will find the first well-researched proof that engaging with life is within anyone's control and that it is not more easily attained when the task is easy or leisurely. In cross-cultural studies, Csikszentmihalyi and contributors demonstrate that anyone can access the 'flow' state. Early in his work and writings, this particular book provides descriptions of the optimal ...

Fluir En El DePorte
Susan A. Jackson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, ...

Paidotribo Editorial, 2001

Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play

2 reviews
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Jossey-Bass, 2000

A Good Read!
Mihaly Csikszentmihaly presents a detailed examination of motivation based on a study of a half-dozen groups of people involved in recreational pursuits: rock climbers, composers, dancers, chess players and basketball players. He chose these groups in an effort to understand more fully what motivates people to engage in activities that are extremely challenging or offer few external rewards. ...

The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self

1 review
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Eugene Halton

Cambridge University Press, 1981

Transformer
This is classic Csikszentmihalyi. He and Rochberg-Halton hit the ball out of the park! History, scientific analysis, a survey and the ability to hold it all together blend to enable the reader to get a glimpse of a sustainable future. This book is like a good play, the intriguing teaser front end, the slogging thru volumes of information, the wondering if you should walk out during the ...

Changing the World: A Framework for the Study of Creativity
David Henry Feldman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, ...

Praeger Paperback, 1994

In this volume three of the key figures in the field set out to establish some parameters for the study of creativity. After examining the earlier works on the subject, they present their current research findings, and then attempt to project where the field is likely to go in the decade ahead. Gardner, the proponent of biological aspects of creativity, ranges widely as he examines Freud's Vienna and the features of medicine that both ...

Creativity and Development (Counterpoints (Oxford University Press).)
R. Keith Sawyer, Vera John-Steiner, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

What is creativity, and where does it come from? Creativity and Development explores the fascinating connections and tensions between creativity research and developmental psychology, two fields that have largely progressed independently of each other-until now. In this book, scholars influential in both fields explore the emergence of new ideas, and the development of the people and situations that bring them to fruition. The uniquely ...

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