Finding Flow.pdf

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C S I I( S ZEN T M I HALY I

AULhor of FLOW and CREATIVITY

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vital lives.

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The MasterMinds series:

FINDING FLOW

These concise and accessible books present cutting-edge

ideas by leading thinkers in a highly readable format, each

title a crystallization of a lifetime's work and thought.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF

ENGAGEMENT WITH

EVERYDAY Lin

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After

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Mochi1le Beauy: Elegonce and the Hem1 of Computing

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MIHALY

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JO[[N MADDOX

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Finding flow in e v e r yday life I by Mihaly Csiks.clihalyi.

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�CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

1 The Sruchues of Everyday Life

2 The Content of Experience

J How We Feel When Doing Diferent Things

4 The Paradox of Work

The Risks and Opporhmities of Leisure

6 Relationships and the Quality of Life

Changing the Patterns of Life

116

8 The Autotelic Personality

9 The Love of Fate

'31

Notes

'49

References

'5 9

Index

169

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