New Releases by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Im Flow sein – ein mentaler Zustand völliger Vertiefung, der uns Raum und Zeit vergessen lässt. Mit sich so im Einklang entsteht eine tiefe Verbundenheit zum Leben. In der Kindheit haben wir diesen Zustand oft im Spiel erlebt, dann im kreativen Schaffen oder auch in der Arbeit. Aber wie lässt er sich aktiv generieren, was braucht es dazu? Im Gespräch mit Ingeborg Szöllösi erklärt der weltbekannte Autor anschaulich, wie Flow entsteht und wie wir Bedingungen dafür im Alltag schaffen können.

Che cos’è una vita felice? Cercando di rispondere a una delle domande più antiche del mondo, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi ci introduce al concetto di «flow»: una condizione in cui, trovandoci completamente assorbiti in ciò che stiamo facendo, perdiamo il senso del tempo e riusciamo così a dare importanza al presente. Tenendo sotto controllo emozioni negative quali stress, ansia e noia, il «flusso» è la risorsa che abbiamo a disposizione per fare della nostra esistenza un’esistenza felice. Chiave del successo di tante persone creative – musicisti, artisti e scrittori, ma anche atleti e scienziati –, è in realtà uno stato che tutti possiamo sperimentare nelle attività quotidiane: dal giardinaggio alla cucina, dall’apprendimento di una nuova lingua alla cura della casa. In un mondo frenetico in cui è sempre più difficile trovare un equilibrio, Seguire il flow è un antidoto all’assedio della tecnologia multitasking, un libro semplice e rivoluzionario grazie al quale impareremo a mettere a frutto nel modo migliore il nostro tempo, a realizzare le nostre potenzialità e a vivere appieno la nostra vita.

Escrito por um dos pioneiros no estudo científico da felicidade, um guia indispensável para encontrar a satisfação no dia a dia. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi acredita que o foco obsessivo em trabalho e dinheiro nos desviou da felicidade. Eles preenchem nossos dias com ansiedade e pressão, de modo que, durante o tempo livre, tendemos a viver no tédio, na frente das telas ou absorvidos por aparelhos de celular. O que estamos perdendo? Para responder a essa pergunta, o autor analisou milhares de indivíduos e descobriu que as pessoas ficam mais felizes quando se desafiam com tarefas que exigem alto grau de habilidade e de comprometimento. A dica é: encontrar quais atividades podem proporcionar o melhor flow para cada um de nós. Ao transformar conceitos — desenvolvidos por meio do trabalho e de pesquisas durante uma vida inteira na Universidade de Chicago — em diretrizes claras, Flow – Guia prático fornece as ferramentas necessárias para uma vida mais prazerosa e significativa.

Dé klassieker over Flow: wat is Flow en hoe kom je in een Flow? De psycholoog Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi deed grensverleggend onderzoek naar flow: wat maakt een ervaring bevredigend en wat gebeurt er als we opgaan in het moment. De eerste verschijning van Flow (1990) was een mijlpaal in het denken over de kwaliteit van onze ervaring. Sindsdien zweren topsporters, muzikanten en professionals wereldwijd bij deze methode. Door dit boek leren ze hun bewustzijn kennen, ontdekken ze wat waar geluk inhoudt en verbeteren ze de kwaliteit van hun prestaties en leven.

Why do some people achieve outstanding success while many who work hard do not accomplish much and settle for ordinary life after some fruitless attempts at success?This book contains the testimonies of a good number of people who are globally recognized as accomplished individuals. Their stories provide a clue to the answer to that question. They say even though success does not seem to have a formula, determined individuals can overcome difficult challenges and become outstanding achievers. Their stories and the principles of success the curator of the book gathered from over 400 distinguished achievers from around the world indicate that the route to success is full of seeming contradictions. Understanding those seeming contradictions generally provides the key to what you want. The lessons in this book will aid your understanding of the barriers standing between you and your goals and point you in the direction of life of significance. The individuals serving as your guides through their stories and advice have used the ideas they have presented in this book to achieve outstanding success. It has taken some of them over five decades of diligent work to arrive at their current prestigious positions. Your own journey does not have to take that long. You can pick up the principles that have taken them that long to learn while on a bus ride to work. That may be how much time it will take you to finish this book. Smart people learn from the mistakes and right steps of others. This book may be all you need to accomplish much more than you currently desire. The lessons in it have come from Nobel Prize Winners, Presidents of countries, religious leaders, youth activists, outstanding business men and women and innovators benefitting our world with their products and services. They come from America, Europe, Africa and other continents. Enrich your network. Buy copies for some of its members.

More than anything else, this book is an exploration of happiness. What makes us happy? How can we live a fulfilling life? These are no simple questions to ask, but author Csikszentmihalyi makes a compelling and clear argument as to how happiness can be obtained (in passing, he even gives simple explanations for consciousness and the meaning of life!).In doing so, the author touches on a lot of principles from ancient philosophies and religions, such as Stoicism and Buddhism. Yet the approach for a happy life set out in Flow is based upon scientific research, as opposed to rules and guidelines obtained from ancient wisdom. Not that there''s anything wrong with ancient wisdom, but it''s all the more impressive to see modern guidelines to happiness based on scientific research.So what does it come down to? On the one hand, happiness is not a destination where you arrive, but a condition that needs to be cultivated. It''s affected by the information we let into our thoughts and the way we seek happiness. Csikszentmihalyi makes a clear distinction between pleasure seeking and enjoyment, where pleasure is externally focused and hence a temporary fix for happiness, while true enjoyment comes from within and is sustainable.On the other hand, it depends on how we engage in activities, and this is where flow enters the scene: the research shows surprisingly few moments of happiness occur when we''re idle. While engaged in work, in creating something, in pursuit of some kind of goal, stretching our abilities to their limits, those are the moments when most of us experience true happiness. This is when we''re in a state of flow.Paradoxically, this means we often feel happier when working than when engaged in what most people consider leisure time: watching TV, getting drunk, lying on a beach for a week. Flow provides a solution: when the principles are understood, many activities can be turned into rewarding experiences that contribute to our happiness, and who would say no to that?

Mental fit zu sein ist eine der Grundvoraussetzungen für sportlichen Erfolg – das bestätigt jeder Läufer, der seinen Sport ernst nimmt. Wenn der Geist einen bestimmten Zustand erreicht, lassen sich quasi mühelos Spitzenleistungen erbringen und der Sportler kann über sich hinauswachsen. Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, weltbekannter Wissenschaftler und Bestsellerautor, erforscht seit vielen Jahren die Fähigkeit des Menschen, den Geist in einen Flow-Zustand zu versetzen. Laufen im Flow ist das erste Buch, das sich voll und ganz damit beschäftigt, wie Läufer in Wettkampf und Training in den Flow-Zustand gelangen können. Csikszentmihalyi beleuchtet zusammen mit der Psychologin Christine Weinkauff Duranso und dem Laufjournalisten und Trainer Philip Latter das Phänomen des Flow in all seinen Facetten. Sie vermitteln einzigartige Praxisübungen, die das Auftreten von Flow stimulieren, und zitieren Spitzenläufer, die aus erster Hand von ihren Flow-Erlebnissen berichten. Laufen im Flow verhilft Läufern nicht nur zu einer besseren Leistung durch einen offenen Geist, sondern macht auch das Laufen an sich zu einer gesünderen und genussvolleren Erfahrung.

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"Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi''s famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying 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 chance. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience teaches how, by ordering the information that enters our consciousness, we can discover true happiness and greatly improve the quality of our lives."--Publisher.

These volumes bring together a valuable collection of work from four decades of writing by one accomplished and influential scholar, who has academic foundations in psychology and wide ranging experience and collaborations, crossing into a number of other disciplines. Through these volumes the important themes and discoveries in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s work emerge, including studies of creativity, cultural evolution, play and adolescent development. These are big issues of our time and through this series we are able to trace the origins and development of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s work. Readers will discover what inspired his perspective and led to his fresh insights on some of the mysteries of human existence, as well as discovering the insights themselves. This series will appeal to scholars in psychology, sociology, anthropology, neuroscience and management studies as the work crosses disciplines and is of broad scholarly significance. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is best-known for his theory on FLOW and author of the ground breaking classic work Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.

This first volume of the Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi represents his work on Art and Creativity. Starting with his seminal 1964 study on creativity up to his 2010 publication in Newsweek, the volume spans over four decades of research and writing and clearly shows Csikszentmihalyi’s own development as an academic, psychologist, researcher and person. Unconventional and unorthodox in his approach, Csikszentmihalyi chose the topic of creativity as a field of study believing it would help him be a better psychologist and advance his understanding of how to live a better life. The chapters in this volume trace the history of the study of creativity back to the days of Guilford and research on IQ and Jacob Getzels’ work on creativity and intelligence. Firmly grounded in that history, yet extending it in new directions, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi started his life-long study on artistic creativity. His first extensive study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago enabled him to observe, test and interview fine art students drawing in a studio. The study formed the very basis of all his work on the subject and has resulted in several articles, represented in this volume, on such creativity-related concepts as problem solving versus problem finding, the personality of the artist, the influence of the social context, creativity as a social construction, developmental issues and flow. The main contribution to the topic of creativity and also the main concept explored in this volume, is the Systems Model of Creativity. Seven chapters in this volume discuss the development of this conceptual model and theory.

The second volume in the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers about thirty years of Csikszentmihalyi‘s work on three main and interconnected areas of study: attention, flow and positive psychology. Describing attention as psychic energy and in the footsteps of William James, Csikszentmihalyi explores the allocation of attention, the when and where and the amount of attention humans pay to tasks and the role of attention in creating ‘experiences’, or ordered patterns of information. Taking into account information processing theories and attempts at quantifying people’s investment, the chapters deal with such topics as time budgets and the development and use of the Experience Sampling Method of collecting data on attention in everyday life. Following the chapters on attention and reflecting Csikszentmihalyi’s branching out into sociology and anthropology, there are chapters on the topic of adult play and leisure and connected to that, on flow, a concept formulated and developed by Csikszentmihalyi. Flow has become a popular concept in business and management around the world and research on the concept continues to flourish. Finally, this volume contains articles that stem from Csikszentmihalyi’s connection with Martin Seligman; they deal with concepts and theories, as well as with the development and short history, of the field and the “movement” of positive psychology.

The third volume of the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers his work on the application of flow in areas that go beyond the field of leisure where the concept was first applied. Based on his personal experience with schooling and learning, as well as that of many others and contrary to what Cicero claimed, Csikszentmihalyi arrived at the conclusion that instead of taking pride in making the roots of knowledge as bitter as possible, we should try to make them sweeter. Just as flow became a popular and useful concept in voluntary activities, it could likewise be applied in education with the end result of young people being more likely to continue learning not just because they have to but because they want to. This volume brings together a number of articles in which Csikszentmihalyi develops ideas about how to make education and more generally the process of learning to live a good life, more enjoyable. Since theory is the mother of good practice, the first eleven chapters are devoted to theoretical reflections. Some are general and explore what it means to be a human being, what it means to be a person, when we look at life from the perspective of flow. Others are more narrowly focused on such topics as consumption, education, teaching and learning. They help laypeople reflect how they can arrange their lives in such a way as to leave a small ecological footprint while getting the most enjoyment. The second section of the volume contains a dozen empirical articles on similar topics. They deal with the development of identity and self-worth; with the formation of goals and motivation; with loneliness and family life.

Desde que Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi publicó su revolucionario libro Fluir , que inspiró a dirigentes políticos mundiales, tales como Tony Blair y Bill Clinton, un nuevo paradigma se ha ido generando en el mundo de la empresa. Mientras que todavía algunos directivos siguen siendo víctimas de su codicia unilateral, los líderes realmente inteligentes y con visión de futuro construyen objetivos que no sólo les beneficien a ellos, sino también a los demás. En una era en que los negocios y el trabajo ocupan el lugar de la religión y la política, Fluir en los negocios revela cómo los directivos empresariales, los gerentes, e incluso los empleados, pueden hallar su manera de "fluir" y de este modo contribuir, no sólo a su propia felicidad, sino también a una sociedad más justa y creativa. Csikszentmihalyi identifica los factores esenciales para el funcionamiento de un negocio fluido: la confianza, el compromiso, el crecimiento personal de los empleados y la dedicación a la creación de un producto que ayude a la humanidad. Fluir en los negocios es pues un texto indispensable para todo aquel que valore las contribuciones de los individuos en el cambiante mundo de la empresa.

“Although the benefits of this study to scholars are obvious, this thought-provoking mixture of scholarly and colloquial will enlighten inquisitive general readers, too.” — Library Journal (starred review) The classic study of the creative process from the bestselling author of Flow. Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (“The leading researcher into ‘flow states.’” — Newsweek) reveals what leads to these moments—be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab—so that this knowledge can be used to enrich people''s lives. Drawing on nearly one hundred interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists, to politicians and business leaders, to poets and artists, as well as his thirty years of research on the subject, Csikszentmihalyi uses his famous flow theory to explore the creative process. He discusses such ideas as why creative individuals are often seen as selfish and arrogant, and why the "tortured genius" is largely a myth. Most important, he explains why creativity needs to be cultivated and is necessary for the future of our country, if not the world.

The renowned author of Flow shares a “wise, humane inquiry” into the evolution of consciousness—and how we can rewire our minds for contemporary life (Publishers Weekly). In Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s bestselling Flow, he introduced readers to a radical new theory of happiness. Now in The Evolving Self—his breakthrough sequel—he demonstrates how we can understand and overcome our evolutionary shortcomings in order to build a stable, meaningful future for ourselves and each other. The Evolving Self covers the challenges associated with our cognitive evolutionary history; the distortions of reality we experience due to genes, culture, and our sense of self; and the central importance of “flow” from an evolutionary perspective. Erudite, insightful, and practical, The Evolving Self is a timely resource for anyone looking to improve our world for ourselves and for generations to come. “A book of singular importance and timeliness, one with momentous implications for the future.” —Howard Gardner

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi sostiene que los mismos comportamientos, genéticamente programados, que hasta hace poco ayudaron a los seres humanos a adaptarse y multiplicarse, ahora amenazan su supervivencia. Las obsesiones con la comida y el sexo, las diferentes formas de adicción al placer, una excesiva racionalidad y la tendencia a centrarnos en los aspectos negativos de la existencia son algunos de los factores que ponen en riesgo el futuro de la humanidad. Para revertir esta tendencia, el autor plantea que debemos liberar nuestra mente de ilusiones culturales tales como la superioridad etnocéntrica o la identificación con las posesiones individuales, y nos anima a encontrar modos de reducir la opresión, explotación e injusticia que se han ido arraigando en la estructura de la sociedad. Y, fundamentalmente, Csikszentmihalyi nos insta a asumir el control de la evolución humana, para lo cual sólo necesitamos concentrarnos en aquellas actividades que nos resulten estimulantes, que nos hagan sentir en equilibrio con el exterior y superar el conformismo y el caos.

Qu''est-ce qui fait la spécificité d''un individu créatif ? Y a-t-il un âge plus propice à la créativité ? Quelles conditions favorisent son éclosion ? Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi se penche sur le processus créatif qu''il place au centre de cette " expérience optimale " étudiée dans ses précédents livres Vivre et Mieux vivre. En s''appuyant sur des témoignages d''écrivains, artistes de tous horizons, scientifiques, chercheurs, politiques, acteurs ou encore chefs d''entreprise qu''il a suivis pendant cinq ans, le psychologue explore ici toutes les facettes - y compris les plus surprenantes - du processus créatif, et nous donne les outils pour insuffler une étincelle créative jusque dans les champs les plus inattendus de notre vie quotidienne.

Gives a complete overview of the foundations for Experience Sampling Method (ESM) and provides a step-by-step guide for researchers designing and implementing an ESM study. This work also offers useful tips to consider before implementing a study, based on real-life examples.

Après le succès de Vivre, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi nous livre, dans ce nouvel opus, les clefs de l''application de sa théorie du bonheur. En s''appuyant sur les recherches scientifiques et psychologiques les plus récentes, mais aussi sur la sagesse antique et les trésors d''enseignements transmis par les religions, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, l''un des fondateurs du mouvement de " psychologie positive ", montre comment chacun de nous peut atteindre la plénitude. Il suffit de s''ouvrir à ce que l''auteur appelle " l''expérience optimale " : en refusant la facilité, en se lançant des défis, en transformant la routine en plaisir, nous pouvons nous réinvestir dans chaque moment et nous forger une existence agréable. Faire ce que nous aimons est, nous rappelle Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, la seule manière d''être heureux et de faire du bien autour de soi.