Flow – Psychology of Optimal Experience

NOTES ■ 251 Learning in adulthood. The importance of learning in later life has received much needed attention lately. For some ...

252 NOTES showed that if people were asked to do without their usual routines, such as tapping their fingers, doodling, whistlin ...

NOTES ■ 253 the picture in their heads, which has no chance to grow and develop. But to be successful in his open-ended process ...

254 ■ NOTES a recluse displaying eccentric and paranoid behavior. For parallels with Bobby Fischer’s career, see Waitzkin (1988) ...

NOTES ■ 255 67 The essential connection between something like happiness, enjoyment, and even virtue, on the one hand, and intri ...

256 ■ NOTES Crime as flow. A description of how juvenile delinquency can provide flow experiences is given in Csikszentmihalyi & ...

NOTES • 257 The religious significance of Mayan ball games is described in Blom (1932) and Gilpin (1948). Pok-ta-pok, as this ga ...

80 The information about the Great Ise Shrine was provided in a personal communication by Mark Csikszentmihalyi. 82 For the perc ...

NOTES ■ 259 87 Cortical activation is the amount of electrical activity in the cerebral cortex at a given moment in time; its am ...

260 ■ NOTES Freudian concept of sublimation, a topic that, if bypassed, might leave us with the nagging feeling of an unresolved ...

NOTES ■ 261 physical love makes us want to have sex, both of which we need to do in order to survive and reproduce, enjoyment mo ...

262 ■ NOTES The importance of music in the lives of Americans is mentioned in The Meaning of Things (Csikszentmihalyi & Roch ...

NOTES ■ 263 Alan Bloom (1987, esp. pp. 68—81) provides a spirited defense of Plato and an indictment of modern music, presumably ...

264 • NOTES The various sensory deprivation experiments also show that without patterned input of information, the organization ...

NOTES ■ 265 also Suppies (1978). This evidence showed that learning nonsense sylla­ bles did not improve a generalized aptitude ...

266 ■ NOTES 129 The argument about how conversation helps maintain the symbolic universe is in Berger & Luckmann (1967). 131 ...

NOTES ■ 267 134- The four quotations from Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific 135 Revolutions (1962) are from pages 24, 38 ...

268 NOTES 137- The amazing variety of things adults learn in their free time is de- 138 scribed in the investigations of Allen T ...

NOTES ■ 269 of the working day of typical English workers before and after the advent of the Industrial Revolution is reconstruc ...

270 ■ NOTES 158 The ESM study that looks at how much flow American workers report on their job and in leisure was reported in Cs ...