Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's 1990 account of 'flow' — the state of complete absorption in a challenging activity that he identifies as the peak of human experience — and how to design life to maximize it.
Defined and operationalized the flow state — Csikszentmihalyi's decades of research produced a precise account of when flow occurs (challenge slightly exceeds skill), its psychological signature (loss of self-consciousness, time distortion), and how to engineer activities to produce it.
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