![]() The book affected world leaders ( United States President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair both numbered among Csikszentmihalyi's admirers), business management theorists, a leading National Football League figure (Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson used Flow in preparing for the 1993 Super Bowl), and others, on down to ordinary readers who had occasionally lost themselves in challenging tasks and wondered why they found the experience so enjoyable. When Csikszentmihalyi published Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience in 1990, readers found in it a set of blueprints for the pursuit of happiness. Psychology as a discipline is more often concerned with human dysfunction than with situations or activities that result in deep satisfaction. ![]() Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost." ![]() Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. He is best known for the concept of "flow"-the state of "being completely involved in an activity for its own sake," he told John Geirland of Wired. Psychologist and educator Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (born 1934) has gained wide recognition and even best-selling author status for his investigations into the nature of happiness and creativity. ![]()
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