ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is professor and former chairman of
the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. For
the past twenty years he has been involved in research on topics
related to flow. Funding for these studies has come from the
Public Health Service and various private grants, primarily the
Spencer Foundation. In addition, a great deal of interest in his
work has been building outside academia, spearheaded by sub
stantial articles in Psychology Today, the New York Times, the
Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Omni, Newsweek, and else
where. He is the author of Beyond Boredom and Anxiety, and
co-author of The Creative Vision, The Meaning of Things, and Being
Adolescent.
Dr. Csikszentmihalyi is a member of the National Academy of
Education and National Academy of Leisure Sciences. He has
been a Senior Fulbright Fellow and currently sits on several
boards, including the Board of Advisers for the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. He has appeared on a number of foreign television
networks, such as the BBC and RAI (Italian television), and has
taken part in several hourlong segments of “Nova.”