Flow
The Psychology of Optimal Experience

You know that uncle you have, who doesn't have any kids and loves to talk your ear off every Thanksgiving, and he's a really nice guy, and he seems to know a lot of stuff, but when you look up the stuff he quotes he seems to always have it a bit off, and he never seems to have a book with him so may......more

I’ve read this book for the second time and it is still fascinating. The author of the book and his colleagues have done a comprehensive research on the concept of “happiness” more than 20 years in various countries. From those innumerable researches they theorized this idea named “Flow”. Flow is a s......more

Flow is the state in which you are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the concentration is so intense that there is no attention left to think about anything else, or to worry about any problem. Full summary of flow: the psychology of optimal experience I consider myself an......more

How must you live your life? Live it in happiness. But how to be happy? When I was a small boy I would often be missing my father for two straight days only to find out that he had been playing mahjong with friends nonstop for 48 or so hours, not getting tired, or sleepy or even hungry (despite the l......more

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi created the notion of "flow" to describe the experience which we have all had -- but all too rarely for most of us -- of becoming so immersed in and challenged by an experience that we lose track of time, our own self-concsciousness and feel most fully engaged in life. Intere......more