New Releases by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

En este libro se abordan todas aquellas cosas que hacen que la vida sea digna de vivirse. La emocion creativa del pintor ante su caballete o del cientifico en su laboratorio se acercan mucho a esa satisfaccion ideal que todos esperamos y tan raramente experimentamos. Y ese es el motivo de que el profesor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi haya entrevistado a mas de noventa de las personas mas interesantes del mundo personas que han revolucionado sus areas de trabajo desde dentro, como el actor Ed Asner, los escritores Robertson Davies y Nadine Gordimer, los cientificos Jonas Salk y Linus Pauling o el senador Eugene McCarthy con el proposito de descubrir de que modo ha influido la creatividad en la fuerza que da impulso a sus vidas. A partir de ahi, el autor analiza los motivos por los que las personas creativas son consideradas a menudo egoistas y arrogantes aun sin serlo, deja patente que la idea del genio torturado es en gran medida un mito sin fundamento, y sostiene, finalmente, que la creatividad exige su cultivo, no solo en campos tradicionalmente creativos como las ciencias y las artes, sino tambien en los negocios, el gobierno y la educacion. Se trata de una obra, pues, que no versa tanto sobre la B+creatividadB; cotidiana que todos somos capaces de experimentar como sobre la creatividad especial de los artistas, los cientificos y todas las demas personas que pueden transformar nuestra cultura y el modo en que miramos el mundo. Sin embargo, al estudiar esas vidas excepcionales, el profesor Csikszentmihalyi nos indica el camino a traves del cual podemos mejorar en nuestra vida cotidiana y su objetivo, entonces, se hace claro: una personalidad mas satisfactoria que nos permita, a su vez, unamayor realizacion laboral y social.

How do we spend our days? What gives us pleasure? Finding flow contends that we often walk through our days unaware and out of touch with our emotional lives. A prescriptive guide that helps us reclaim ownership of our lives.

The findings in this book are the results of a monumental five-year study of a group of exceptionally talented teenagers, examining the role that personality traits, family interactions, education, and the social environment play in a young person''s motivation to develop his or her talent. Diagrams.

A profound explorationof what it means to have a good life. What do we as human beings want from life? How can we best be fulfilled in our lives, relationships and work? Csikszentmihalyi argues that human beings are at their most creative, most rewarded and happiest when they are performing in a state of flow - the state a pianist, a golfer, a snooker player are in they are performing at their best. In an unusual combination of serious pschcology and self - help, Living Well answers the questions self-help books ask but in a way that reflects the cutting edge of psychological research and thinking. The ideas of this book are thought provoking and in applying them to our lives they have the potential to be life changing.

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 constrained and challenged his revolutionary idea. Csikszentmihalyi, with his exploration of genes and memes, examines individual issues as well as broader contextual concerns. Feldman concentrates on the notions of coincidence and the transformational imperative. These essays point to the rejuvenation of the field of creativity research, and suggest where the field is likely to move in the future. This work is a major synthesis of value to advanced researchers as well as students and all those concerned with creativity.

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Der Autor untersucht das flow-Phänomen, das er zuerst beschrieben und so genannt hat, in vier völlig unterschiedlichen Bereichen menschlicher Tätigkeit: beim Schachspielen, beim Klettern im Fels, beim Rocktanzen und bei der Arbeit des Chirurgen. Auch flow-Erfahrungen im Alltagsleben werden erörtert.

An account of what is is to be a teenager in our modern world.

The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelings about common household objects, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton provide a unique perspective on materialism, American culture, and the self. They begin by reviewing what social scientists and philosophers have said about the transactions between people and things. In the model of ''personhood'' that the authors develop, goal-directed action and the cultivation of meaning through signs assume central importance. They then relate theoretical issues to the results of their survey. An important finding is the distinction between objects valued for action and those valued for contemplation. The authors compare families who have warm emotional attachments to their homes with those in which a common set of positive meanings is lacking, and interpret the different patterns of involvement. They then trace the cultivation of meaning in case studies of four families. Finally, the authors address what they describe as the current crisis of environmental and material exploitation, and suggest that human capacities for the creation and redirection of meaning offer the only hope for survival. A wide range of scholars - urban and family sociologists, clinical, developmental and environmental psychologists, cultural anthropologists and philosophers, and many general readers - will find this book stimulating and compelling.

Filled with brilliant wisdom and insights, Beyond Boredom and Anxiety offers a timeless introduction to the concept of flow and the scientific basis behind it-all through the work of one of the field''s great scientists, Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi. Through real-life examples, discover how enjoyable activities provide a common experience-a satisfying, often exhilarating, feeling of creative accomplishment and heightened functioning-and under what conditions ''serious'' work can also provide this intrinsic enjoyment.

Teoretisk overbygning til forfatterens tidligere værker "Flow" og "Flow og engagement i hverdagen" hvor han både inddrager ny teoridannelse inden for evolutionspsykologi og systemteori og trækker på mere traditionelle psykodynamiske og humanistisk-psykologiske tilgange.