His goal is to help us better understand a way of being that is more satisfying and more fulfilling. Others believe we can encourage connection for inspiration, which Cameron calls 'spiritual electricity', the source, or 'the flow', the term coined in a 1990 book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to. By studying the creative lives of exceptional people, Professor Csikszentmihalyi shows us how we can all enhance our everyday lives. This book is not so much about the everyday 'creativity' that we all experience but the kind of creativity of artists, scientists, and others that can transform our culture and the way we look at the world. Here Professor Csikszentmihalyi builds on his flow theory, profiling individuals who have found ways to make flow a permanent feature of their lives and at the same time have contributed to society and culture. Abstract The creative excitement of the artist at her easel or the scientist in the lab comes as close to the ideal fulfillment as we all hope to, and so rarely do. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi reveals what leads to these momentsbe it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the labso that this knowledge can be used to enrich people's lives. Creativity: Flow and the psychology of discovery and invention. In his bestselling book Flow, Professor Csikszentmihalyi explored states of 'optimal experience' - those times when people report feelings of concentration and deep enjoyment - and showed that what makes experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called 'flow'. creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi interviewed more than ninety of possibly the most interesting people in the world - people like actor Ed Asner, authors Robertson Davies and Nadine Gordimer, scientists Jonas Salk and Linus Pauling, and Senator Eugene McCarthy - who have changed the way people in their fields think and work to find out how creativity has been a force in their lives. The creative excitement of the artist at her easel or the scientist in the lab comes as close to the ideal fulfillment as we all hope to, and so rarely do. This book is about what makes life worth living.

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