Finding Flow

by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

“心流”是指我们在做某些事情时，那种全神贯注、投入忘我的状态——这种状态下，你甚至感觉不到时间的存在，在这件事情完成之后我们会有一种充满能量并且非常满足的感受。其实很多时候我们在做自己非常喜欢、有挑战并且擅长的事情的时候，就很容易体验到心流，比如爬山、游泳、打球、玩游戏、阅读、演奏乐器还有工作的时候。心理学家、积极心理学奠基人米哈里·契克森米哈赖在30年前，在大量案例研究的基础上，开创性地提出了“心流”的概念。本书阐述了心流理论，进入心流状态的条件，从日常生活中的休闲娱乐、工作、人际关系等各方面，分析如何进入心流状态，获得优体验。是一本关于如何提升幸福感和效率，获得积极人生的行动指南。

Paperback

Published January 1, 1997

About the author

A Hungarian psychology professor, who emigrated to the United States at the age of 22. Now at Claremont Graduate University, he is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College.

He is noted for both his work in the study of happiness and creativity and also for his notoriously difficult name, in terms of pronunciation for non-native speakers of the Hungarian language, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic. He is the author of many books and over 120 articles or book chapters. 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." His works are influential and are widely cited.