"Save yourself 2 hours and $14 and just head to your nearest Los Angeles new-age cafe and ask a stranger about the good life. Not exactly what I was looking for- which I realize now, is something a bit more practical. The skills side of the equation moves from apathy to boredom to relaxation to control to flow. These experiences are possible for anyone.subtitled, “the psychology of engagement with everyday life”, this little book combines self-help with psychology in providing practical advice for getting the most satisfaction and productivity out of our work and lives. Be engaged with what you do, and do things that you like.
Published Happiness is a loaded word, coming with all sorts of connotations depending on who is defining it. We’d love your help. Along similar lines of the books Stumbling on Happiness and The Happiness Hypothesis, Finding Flow describes tools that contribute to a paradigm shift that help improve quality of life. I read this a chunk at a time, so it took forever, but I enjoyed thinking about the ideas presented.Main message: don't be lazy and sit in front of the TV all day--be involved with life. Still, it was 5 hours well spent. Start by marking “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life” as Want to Read: Although Czikszentmihalyi's language is sometimes overly verbose and his arguments somewhat repetitive, it results in a line of reasoning that is simple and quite frankly inspiPulling Your Own Strings by Wayne W Dyer changed my life. The idea that doing all these things will actually make you happy is a good one. Five hours may zip by and you hardly even notice. Along similar lines of the books Stumbling on Happiness and The Happiness Hypothesis, Finding Flow describes tools that contribute to a paradigm shift that help improve quality of life. April 6th 1998
The book is rich in references and ideas to understand the concepts of quality of life, excellence, flow and how these it apply in our day to day lives.Book Summary – Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday LifeClick to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Wooing and wowing your clients with outstanding customer service Home > Book Summary – Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life. Some of the greatest meaning one will find in life is from experiences where they are passionately engaged in doing something they care about. They are looking for a different type of book, although the information imparted within is often precisely what they're after. This is the difference between the engaged life vs. the passive. "A quick, yet informative read on the psychology behind "Flow," or being in a focused state where one is immersed in a rewarding pursuit, which is a more quantifiable and desirable state than the generic and often fleeting state we call "happiness. Finding Flow by chick-SENT-me-high sustained my inspired, reeling, newly-introspective self with a cushion of clear and elaborate explanations as to why the themes I had found (about living independently and with a focus on valuable work) resonated so much with me. Take a routine chore and figure out how to do it better, faster, more efficiently. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. The challenge is Each of these concepts and background are covered in ore detail in our Csikszentmihalyi develops the core ideas in his book by explaining different variables and their inter-relationships, findings from past studies, and how he arrives at his observations and conclusions.
Perhaps I got the wrong one. From a University of Chicago Professor of Psychology, I expected more than unjustified blanket statements ("In the United States and other technologically advanced societies, individualism and materialism have almost completely prevailed over allegiance to the community and to spiritual values") and crackpot new-agey physics misinterpretations (Special relativity and fractal geometry imply polytheism? Perhaps I got the wrong one.
However, as I progress through the book I realized the information supported, if not duplicated, what I had read in Csikszenmihalyi’s Flow, The Psychology of Optimal Experience. The book answers the questions: “what is a good life”, “how anyone can create an excellent life” and “how to transform every day activities into an opportunity for engagement, enjoyment and growth.” In this summary, we’ll give a synopsis of the book, explain why happiness alone isn’t enough, and how to find “flow” to create true excellence and quality of life.To improve our quality of life, we need to first understand how we experience life.Our quality of life is essentially the accumulation of experiences (what we do, feel, think) over time.