Flow – Psychology of Optimal Experience

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  • Introduction 1 HAPPINESS REVISITED

  • Overview

  • The Roots of Discontent

  • The Shields of Culture

  • Reclaiming Experience

    • Paths of Liberation







  • The Limits of Consciousness 2 THE ANATOMY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

  • Attention as Psychic Energy

  • Enter the Self

  • Disorder in Consciousness: Psychic Entropy

    • Order in Consciousness: Flow



  • Complexity and the Growth of the Self



    • Pleasure and Enjoyment 3 ENJOYMENT AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE



  • The Elements of Enjoyment

  • The Autotelic Experience



    • Flow Activities 4 THE CONDITIONS OF FLOW

    • Flow and Culture

    • The Autotelic Personality

    • The People of Flow





    • Higher, Faster, Stronger 5 THE BODY IN FLOW

    • The Joys of Movement

    • Sex as Flow

    • The Ultimate Control: Yoga and the Martial Arts

    • Flow through the Senses: The Joys of Seeing

    • The Flow of Music

    • The Joys of Tasting





    • The Mother of Science 6 THE FLOW OF THOUGHT

    • The Rules of the Games of the Mind

    • The Play of Words

    • Befriending Clio

    • The Delights of Science

    • Loving Wisdom

    • Amateurs and Professionals

    • The Challenge of Lifelong Learning





    • Autotelic Workers 7 WORK AS FLOW

    • Autotelic Jobs



  • The Paradox of Work

  • The Waste of Free Time



    • Others The Conflict between Being Alone and Being with



  • The Pain of Loneliness



    • NOTES CONTENTS ■ ix

    • REFERENCES

    • Taming Solitude

    • Flow and the Family

    • Enjoying Friends

    • The Wider Community

    • Tragedies Transformed 9 CHEATING CHAOS

    • Coping with Stress

    • The Power of Dissipative Structures

    • The Autotelic Self: A Summary







  • What Meaning Means 10 THE MAKING OF MEANING

    • Cultivating Purpose

    • Forging Resolve

    • Recovering Harmony



  • The Unification of Meaning in Life Themes





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