If you want to be a fulfilled, happy, successful person, consider the below graph. The white diagonal line represents what positive psychology pioneer Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi referred to as "flow." ...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is best known for his 1991 book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. In it he describes what he calls flow, a state of intense concentration that people enter when they ...

His work as a psychologist on the benefits of intense focus led to a global best seller, a term that became a cultural touchstone and new ideas about the path to happiness. By Clay Risen Mihaly ...

Prof. Emeritus Mihaly “Mike” Csikszentmihalyi, a pioneering University of Chicago psychologist known as the “father of flow,” died Oct. 20 at his home in Claremont, California. He was 87. As a scholar ...

The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have. ― Reinhold Messner Source: shutterstock Years ago, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (hereafter: MC) developed the concept of flow to ...

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An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified electroencephalogram (EEG) machines as electrocardiogram (ECG) machines. This has been amended. Many of us are familiar with that feeling of ...