Flow – Psychology of Optimal Experience

THE MAKING OF MEANING ■ 231 thentic projects. The first describes the theme of a person who realizes that choices are free, and ...

232 ■ flow one that was made up of bits and pieces of earlier human achievements. Instead of continuing to play the game of hust ...

THE MAKING OF MEANING ■ 233 school, clerked for a famous justice, became a judge himself, and at the zenith of his career spent ...

234 ■ flow problems would benefit not only himself, but many others besides. This altruistic way of generalizing solutions is ty ...

THE MAKING OF MEANING ■ 235 in a coffin, expecting him to be dead by morning. Altogether, it was not a very promising start. Yet ...

236 ■ flow when they were very young, their parents told them stories and read from books. When told by a loving adult whom one ...

THE MAKING OF MEANING ■ 237 in developmental psychology for the lectures and discussions. I was reasonably content with how thes ...

238 ■ flow his poem is informed by a deep religious ethic, it is very clear to anyone who reads it that Dante’s Christianity is ...

THE MAKING OF MEANING ■ 239 that will marshal our psychic energy toward meaningful goals, a system that provides rules for a way ...

240 ■ FLOW separate from other forms of life. We have conceived of individual human beings as separate from one another. We have ...

NOTES CHAPTER 1 page Happiness. Aristotle’s views of happiness are most clearly developed in 1 the Nicomachean Ethics, book 1, a ...

242 ■ NOTES 4 Flow. My work on optimal experience began with my doctoral disserta­ tion, which involved a study of how young art ...

NOTES • 243 before venturing to suggest ways to improve the human condition. Perhaps the best prototype is Dante’s Divina Commed ...

244 ■ NOTES 11 Culture as defense against chaos. See, for instance, Nelson’s (1965) summary on this point. Interesting treatment ...

NOTES ■ 245 Mental health figures are from the U.S. Social Indicators, p. 93. The budget figures are from the U.S. Statistical A ...

246 * NOTES carriers, was first formulated in a coherent way by Dawkins (1976), although the saying “The chicken is only an egg’ ...

NOTES • 247 page Consciousness. This concept has been central to many religious and 23- philosophical systems, e.g., those of Ka ...

248 ■ NOTES (1969), on the basis ofvon Uexkull’s (1957) calculations, has figured that ‘/is of a second is the threshold of disc ...

NOTES • 249 ing the “self concept.” A good account of how this concept develops is given by Damon & Hart (1982). Another app ...

250 ■ NOTES mihalyi (1970), Csikszentmihalyi & Csikszentmihalyi (1988), and Csik- szentmihalyi & Larson (1984). The noti ...