"One summer, after a long plane ride and a rotten bad year, I went to Grandma Jo's. It was my mother's idea. 'Jett, what you need is a change of scenery.' I think she needed a change of scenery, too.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is best known for his 1991 book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. In it he describes what he calls flow, a state of intense concentration that people enter when they ...
His work as a psychologist on the benefits of intense focus led to a global best seller, a term that became a cultural touchstone and new ideas about the path to happiness. By Clay Risen Mihaly ...