Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

levels and could manage conflict between family and work well. Achor’s suggestion indicates that workplace interactions can play out on other non-work related things. Fellow author, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explores the world of balancing work and family from a different perspective in his novel, Finding Flow. Csikszentmihalyi argues that you can be a line-level employee who loves their work versus a glamorous, or professional type job that hates their work, that contributes excellence to the…

Reading the book Creativity flow and the psychology of discovery and invention was an eye-opening experience. All though, it was repetitive and dull at times, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi manages to fill the book with extremely insightful and thought-provoking ideas on life. He continually managed to shift gears from a slow pacing book to an Awakening masterpiece. That was a first for me because I usually hate slow books. If you also want to be proven wrong that slow and dull books can have a lot of…

How Players Experience Flow in Video Games Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi flow is explained as the satisfaction the person gets when they concentrate on performing a task. However these activities must not be part of the person 's daily routine. Also ever person will experience flow depending on their preferences in activities (Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Smith, & Tosca, 2008, p. 3757). There are seven elements that characterizes flow, which are: a challenging activity, merging of action and awareness, clear…

In "Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor" by Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi it states that if you desire something enough you will end up doing it. They explain that "temptations that can disrupt their lives are often pure indulgences." That saying surprised me but I soon realized how true it is. They also backed that sentence up with examples of how "no one has to drink alcohol." They then go on talking about how TV is one of our biggest things that hold us back and make us less…

as defined by Csikszentmihalyi and others, is a universally recognized psychological state that primarily involves a sense of enjoyment. “Flow is a state of concentration, low self-awareness and enjoyment that typically occurs during activities that are challenging but matched in difficulty to the person’s skill level” (Ullén 167). Other characteristics of flow include feelings of effortlessness, control, and pleasure. Examples of the concept of flow, founded by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, can be…

a certain level of affluence thinking that it will make them happy, they find that on reaching it, they become very quickly habituated, and at that point they start hankering for the next level of income, property, or good health”(145). What Csikszentmihalyi is saying with this is that no matter how much an individual has or obtained, it is never enough, and in the end it always leaves them wanting, needing, or searching for…

The Connection Between Mental Illness and Artistic Creativity In my UNV Let’s Go Arts class we are beginning to learn how to research and use the library so we can become better writers for papers such as these. For the class, we had to pick a topic and then try to write a rough outline of what we think the paper would sound and look like with quotes from articles and citations. I was having trouble trying to pick out a topic because of the many general ideas I had, mental illness and modern art…

According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, in the “Finding Flow” section he says, “Most of the welders who worked there hated their jobs, and were constantly watching the clock in anticipation of quitting time. As soon as they were out of the factory they hurried to the neighborhood…

Group Thinking and Brainstorming can be a powerful tool used for collaborative innovation when done properly. The first article is “The Rise of the New Groupthink” by author Susan Cain, she is addressing groupthink among extraverts and introverts. Cains purpose in writing this article is to speak about how most of us work in teams for managers, who unfortunately admire people skills above all. She goes on to say that collaborations are in and as for lone workers that are out. The second article…

TV: The Good and the Bad Television is a part of everyone’s life whether they like it or not. It has a profound impact on how we live our life from day to day. The articles, “Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor” by Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and “Television: The Plug-In Drug” by Marie Winn incorporate the effects that television has had on individuals and amongst society. The usage of television can bring about a balance of both positives and negatives in any ordinary family.…