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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi taught psychology at the University of Chicago for three decades and created the concept of the mental frame of mind known as flow, or a state of happiness when a person is ...

Coined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, flow is that feeling you get when you’re so deeply involved in an activity that time seems to fly by, and nothing else matters.

Throughout the 1990s, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi became famous for his research on these moments of optimal experience, a state that he called "flow." He had subjects wear wristwatches that beeped ...

In running, flow is something many seek to tap into each time we go out the door. According to psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, flow is the state of optimal experience that occurs when a ...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a Hungarian-American psychologist, who sadly died last week, is credited for his work on flow theory (click here to watch his TED Talk on “Flow, the Secret to Happiness ...

The term “flow” was first coined two decades after Bannister’s experience, by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi . Flow, a state of optimal experience, arises in a very specific setting.

Jackson is a leading “flow” researcher who studied under Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the psychologist and professor who pioneered the concept of flow in the 1970s.

For Csikszentmihalyi, flow is a magical zone between anxiety and boredom. The vertical axis represents the size of the challenges we are facing. The horizontal axis represents the power of our ...