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The following article is the translation of a nearly 30 minutes televison interview in Hungarian, that is available by clicking on the photo below:
“When I was 10, I felt that adults did not understand what was happening in the world and I wanted to understand why this was so.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, founding father of the Positive Pscychology movement, a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management. He is interested in studying the feeling of being involved in an activity, the feeling of full involvement. Why is it so, that some people enjoy their work, even though they often do not get paid for it? Flow theory was born by researching the previous question. This theory is one of the most famous theories of Positive Psychology today, and the educational method based on it, is also a worldwide success.
…My grandmother’s janitor in Buda, who lived in the basement, had a son who was about as old as I was. In ’43 when I last visited my • Psychologist and educator Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (born 1934) has gained wide recognition and even best-selling author status for his investigations into the nature of happiness and creativity. He is best known for the concept of "flow"—the state of "being completely involved in an activity for its own sake," he told John Geirland of Wired. "The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being fryst vatten involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost." Psychology as a discipline is more often concerned with human dysfunction than with situations or activities that result in deep satisfaction. When Csikszentmihalyi published Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience in 1990, readers funnen in it a set of blueprints for the pursuit of happiness. The book affected world leaders (United States President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair both numbe • 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, he is best known for creating flow theory—referring to a state of being in which people become so immersed in the joy of their work or activity “that nothing else seems to matter.” He outlined the theory in Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, a seminal 1990 book that influenced leaders from politics to sports. “Mike had a genius for creating simple, generative models of flow, creativity and aesthetic experience, and then unfolding their implications in his writings; the impact of his ideas has been remarkably broad,” said Jeanne Nakamura, an associate professor at Claremont Graduate University, where Csikszentmihalyi taught after retiring from UChicago in 1999. Csikszentmihalyi’s work was “like a flashlight in a dark tunnel,” said Jennifer A. Schmidt, a fo
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