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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

1934 – 2021

Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. He is noted for his work in the study of happiness and creativity, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow, a highly focused mental state. Martin Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association, described Csikszentmihalyi as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology. Csikszentmihalyi once said: "Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason." (Wikipedia)

Bibliography

Books

30 books

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Flow

1990

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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What Are You Optimistic About?

2007

John Brockman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Brian Greene, Jared M. Diamond, Steven Pinker, John Horgan, John McCarthy, Sam Harris, Chris Anderson, Martin Rees, Carlo Rovelli, Daniel C. Dennett, Andrew Brown, Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer, Clay Shirky, J. Craig Venter, Douglas Rushkoff, Anton Zeilinger, Leonard Susskind, Geoffrey Miller, Marcelo Gleiser, Martin Elias Pete Seligman, Freeman J. Dyson, Jerry Adler, Gino Segrè, Lawrence Maxwell Krauss, Robert Shapiro, Frank Wilczek, Paul J. Steinhardt, Lee Smolin, Lisa Randall, Charles Seife, Karl Sabbagh, Alexander Vilenkin, Max Tegmark

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The Well of Creativity

1997

Isabel Allende, Julia Cameron, Natalie Goldberg, Deena Metzger, Keith Jarrett, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Michael Toms

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Good Work

2002

Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon