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Tag: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  • Best “Personal Development” books I read in 2012

    The year 2012 is coming to an end and a part of my reflection process is to look back on books I’ve read this year. Some of them I even read twice.. & some I have blogged about. Anyways here is my top 20 list The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns…

  • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

     From Wikipedia: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (born September 29, 1934, in Fiume, Italy – now Rijeka, Croatia) is a Hungarian psychology professor, who emigrated to the United States at the age of 22. Now at Claremont Graduate University, he is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College. He is noted for…

  • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow

    TED bio: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. A leading researcher in positive psychology, he has devoted his life to studying what makes people truly happy: “When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.” He is…