Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

ability able achieve action activity attention become begin better body called challenges chance complex concentration consciousness course create Csikszentmihalyi culture depend described desires develop difficult enjoy enjoyable enjoyment environment example existence expect external fact feel flow experience follow forces friends give given goals hand happens happiness harmony human ideas important improve individuals instance interesting invest involved keep leisure less lives longer look meaning mental mind move nature one's opportunities optimal experience parents past patterns person physical playing pleasure possible present problem psychic energy reading reason relationship reported requires response result rules seems sense simple skills social studies task things thought tion transform true turn universe usually