Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

ability able achieve adolescents adults anomie artists attention autotelic autotelic personality basic become behavior believe boring challenges chaos chess complex concentration coping creativity Csikszentmihalyi 1975 culture described develop dissipative structures Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann enjoy enjoyable enjoyment entropy environment example external fact feedback feel flow activity flow experience focused friends genetically programmed goals happens happiness harmony human important improve the quality individuals inner instance interaction invest involved Johann Huizinga keep Larson leisure lives Massimini meaning ment mental mind negentropic one's optimal experience parents patterns percent physical playing pleasure possible problem psychic energy psychic entropy psychology quality of experience relationship response rewards Richard Logan rock climber rules sense sexuality skills social stress studies surgeons survive teenagers things thought tion transform turn University of Chicago University Press Yoga York