flow the psychology of optimal experience

It’s a secular book with powerful insight into how to live with your neshamah. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyis famous investigations of 'optimal experience' have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow.

For a frum person, it can be extremely helpful in understanding how to be even more connected to Hashem in daily life. His popular 1990 book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience is based on the premise that happiness levels can be shifted by introducing flow. It speaks to the concepts of mindfulness, of living in the moment, and what happens beyond the implications of career success. It’s one of the most comprehensive books on helping a person achieve optimal performance. The flow state is an optimal state of intrinsic motivation, where the person is fully immersed in what he is doing. There’s a famous self-help book that psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote in 1990 called Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. The idea of flow is identical to the feeling of being in the zone or in the groove. This season, we asked prominent readers for their book choices, focusing on surprise answers and unexpected selections: In laymans terms, its akin to being 'in the zone. A secular book with powerful insight into how to live with your neshamahĮven though many of us have been on “summertime” for months already, the season still somehow brings along its own relaxed pace, and a bit more time and tranquility to linger over a good book. optimal experience) is the psychological state that accompanies highly engaging activities (Peterson, 2006).

Flow the psychology of optimal experience