Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life

Blurb

Part psychological study part self help book Finding Flowis a prescriptive guide that helps us reclaim ownership of our lives Based on a far reaching study of thousands of individuals Finding Flowcontends that we often walk through our days unaware and out of touch with our emotional lives Our inattention makes us constantly bounce between two extremes during much of the day we live filled with the anxiety and pressures of our work and obligations while during our leisure moments we tend to live in passive boredom The key according to Csikszentmihalyi is to challenge ourselves with tasks requiring a high degree of skill and commitment Instead of watching television play the piano Transform a routine task by taking a different approach In short learn the joy of complete engagement Thought they appear simple the lessons in Finding Floware life altering Part psychological study part self help book this is a prescriptive guide that aims to help us reclaim ownership of our lives Based on a study of thousands of individuals this handbook contends that we often walk through our days unaware and out of touch with our emotional lives