Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

ability able achieve action activity attention become behavior better body called challenges chance Chicago complex concentration consciousness course create Csikszentmihalyi culture depend described desires develop difficult enjoy enjoyable enjoyment environment example existence expect external fact feel flow experience follow forces friends give goals hand happens happiness human ideas important improve individuals instance interest invest involved keep leisure less lives longer look meaning mental mind move nature one's opportunities optimal experience parents past patterns person physical playing pleasure possible present Press problem psychic energy psychology reading reason relationship reported requires result rules seems sense simple skills social studies things thought tion transform true turn University usually York