Speed read: Flow

Jo Arden

This Speed Read summaries the book 'Flow: the classic work on how to achieve happiness' by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, which examines how the concept of flow is deeply connected to being happiness.

Speed read: Flow

Jo Arden 23red

This speed read was originally published in the Admap May 2016 issue.

What makes people glad to be alive? Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's studies revealed what makes experience satisfying is 'flow' – a state of concentration so focused it amounts to total absorption in an activity and results in a perfect state of happiness.

Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, has become the classic work on happiness and a major contribution to contemporary psychology.

Flowis a manifesto for happiness. While not a how-to guide to achieve happiness, it certainly gives food...

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