5/10/2023 0 Comments Flow by mihaly csikszentmihalyiHere is a list of some of the benefits of the research-based benefits of Flow from the mental health information online resource, Verywell Mind: Or, should I say, maybe we haven’t made it happen a lot. Now, maybe Flow hasn’t happened a lot for every one of us. And the brain does love how good new learning can feel. Makes sense when we consider that Yale study I love so much, which found that optimal learning takes place when we are 70% outside of our comfort zone. The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times. The father of Flow, Csikszentmihalyi, died this past October 20, and may he rest in peace, although he does not appear to have been a huge fan of peace. What he found through years of studies was that human happiness is not predetermined and static-but rather something we can create. Self-consciousness disappears, and the sense of time becomes distorted.Īs a WWII prisoner witnessing so much pain and suffering, Csikszentmihalyi became intrigued by human happiness, and what makes it so. In the words of recently deceased Csikszentmihalyi, who wrote Flow: The Psychology of Happiness:Ĭoncentration is so intense that no attention is left over to think about anything irrelevant or to worry about problems.
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