Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Shanghai Press Under constant threat

Under constant threat

Raised by their single mother

J Robert Oppenheimer

and parenthood

parent versus child

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Shanghai Press Under constant threatPsychologist 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.