Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Books
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Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s well-known investigations of “optimal experience” have exposed that what makes an experience genuinely nourishing is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to opportunity. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience teaches how, by ordering the in rank that enters our consciousness, we can learn right happiness and greatly improve the quality of our lives.
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I haven’t had many experiences like it: reading Flow is like banging a wildebeest on speed. I’m sorry, I wasn’t clear there: the wildebeest is the one who’s on speed. You’re on heroin. And wooo baby, that is one of the wildest rides you can take because wildebeests are such gorgeous creatures but even getting near one is pure Colombian danger. So once you’re up in that wildebeest and that sweet `n’ savory musk hits your brain, and all you can do is close your eyes and feel that king of the jungle pride wash over you, a warm feeling fills your stomach and melts up your face and you feel at once absolutely powerful and absolutely peaceful, and you reckon wow, buttbanging this savannah cow is allowing you to see God. But no, that’s really more of the heroin kicking in.
It’s like being brainbanged by an angel. A gorgeous, huge busted angel with whatever eye and hair color you like, but I’m sorry women and gays, it’s a girl angel for everyone, stop complaining and for a second step back and have the humility to see that most people never get to share an intimate moment with any angel at all, and be grateful, because she’s going all out, scissoring your frontal lobe and motorboating your cerebellum, eating out all your cortex folds with the fervor of an athletic latina coed who’s eight smirnoffs in and having the time of her life and you don’t know how the two of you finished up on top of each other on the upstairs couch, writhing and semi conscious and with tongues of purposeful passion and who really cares how it ongoing let’s just end it let’s just OHHHHHHHHHH I HOPE OUR SORORITY PRESIDENT DOESN’T SMELL ALL THE JALEPENO POPPERS AND SNIFF HER WAY IN HERE
And as you just close your eyes and thank your lucky nuts that you found this book, and that you were brainbanged by a metaphorical angel and dickbanged by a metaphorical gnu butt, you have one final realization. And then that, too, recedes into the second wave of heroin.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is near impossible to read. It has:
- terrible flow
- is hard to follow
- is sporadic hence unable to hold attention and
- doesn’t make any points very clear at all.
Throughout the entire book it seems to simply “state” things, theories, without adding much value or making the theories very matter-of-fact at all. The book just prattles on and on about “things”. It’s a book of statements!
Ironically, you really only need to read 1 page of this book – the page with the “Flow” diagram summed up the whole book. I can summarise it like this: “To be in flow, make sure your skill level and challenge level go up in tandem”. That’s it!
This is the problem with academic journals trying to “thwart-over” into well loved business epic territory. It’s padded out to fill a book when it doesn’t need to. It still reads like an academic journal i.e. not for broadcast consumption, so shouldn’t be sold as such. Perhaps it would be a more effective book with just 1/4 of the pages? Admittedly, it’s not simple for any researcher to turn their academic works into a “thwart-over” sensation as a well loved business epic. Successful books that come to mind are “In Search of Excellence” and “Built to Last” / “Excellent to Fantastic”.
FLOW may possibly’ve been a better book, but as it stands, it is of too small matter-of-fact value to be a excellent read.
Rating: 1 / 5
“Flow” is a book about improving both performance and satisfaction in most pursuits.
If awareness is required for improvement, than the analysis presented in “Flow” is helpful in both regards.
The book provides a general description of the pleasant sensation described as “Flow.”
Based on people’s descriptions of positive experiences, the author identifies the mutual characteristics of the experiences that correspond to the respective experiences being characterized as positive.
Searching for “Flow (psychology)” on Wikipedia will yield a pretty excellent understanding of the concepts presented in “Flow.”
But, it is fascinating to read how Csíkszentmihályi comes to conceptualize “Flow.”
Rating: 3 / 5
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience is an brilliant read. When I first got this book, I had no thought what it was about. I figured that it would be a look into psychological ideals and I was about half right. The book finished up being more of a self help book; a way to make one’s life better and deeper. The thought of Optimal Experience is a hard one to see, but after reading the book I certainly know more about myself and my own life. The book is one that turns inspection inward and causes the reader to take stock of how he/she works in this world. Thoughts expressed in the book include how to achieve happiness at work and within all things in one’s life. If I had to sum the whole thing up in a few words, I would say that it is a book about how to be pleased. It uses several psychological studies to prove just how happiness can be achieved. This may end up being a self help book, but it does not give a step by step formula for how to achieve happiness. It simply lays the ground work for the reader to take control and find happiness on their own. I found that I may possibly relate to a lot of the topics that were covered, and that the more a read, the more I understood about myself. The book itself is well written, though it can be a small up tight at times. It was a slow read for me because of the volume of in rank that it contains. One has to read it slowly and pay attention, or he/she will miss out on some of the main points. It is trying at times to follow what Csikszentmihalyi is saying, but after re-reading certain parts I came to know. I read this book for a college course, and I am glad that I did. It focuses on thoughts that can help a person better themselves and those nearly them. I judge everyone should read this book at least once in their lifetime, even out of pure boredom.As the book states, It offers steps toward enhancing the quality of life, and everyone should have the opportunity to improve something about themselves.
Rating: 4 / 5
I plotting this was going to be a book about how to increase concentration and performance on complex tasks, but it turned out to be more about assessing yourself and your circumstances and apt better adjusted – the pursuit of happiness. Writing style has changed so much recently that the book feels like it was written in 1970 not 1990, but you have to try to ignore that and connect with the author’s empathy to get the most out of it.
Rating: 5 / 5