Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play

By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Self-Help

Beyond Boredom and Anxiety, first published in 1975, is psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's first study of the state he called flow. It draws on interviews with rock climbers, chess players, dancers, surgeons and others who do demanding activities for their own sake. He finds that deep enjoyment comes when an activity's challenges match a person's skills, a zone between boredom and anxiety. This 25th-anniversary edition presents the original research that his later book Flow brought to a general audience.

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