New years often come with new resolutions. Get back in shape. Read more. Make more time for friends and family. My list of resolutions might not look quite the same as yours, but each of our ...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi taught psychology at the University of Chicago for three decades and created the concept of the mental frame of mind known as flow, or a state of happiness when a person is ...

The science of ultimate human performance has a bad name–literally. “Flow” is the term used by researchers for optimal states of consciousness, those peak moments of total absorption where ...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist and best-selling author who coined the term “flow” to describe the sense of creativity that emerges from an intense absorption in a challenging activity ...

Prof. Emeritus Mihaly “Mike” Csikszentmihalyi, a pioneering University of Chicago psychologist known as the “father of flow,” died Oct. 20 at his home in Claremont, California. He was 87. As a scholar ...

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says we can achieve one of the most elusive needs — self-actualization — by finding a state of "flow" in our work or our hobbies. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ...

By Clay Risen Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a Hungarian American psychologist who showed how everyone from artists to assembly-line workers can be transported to a state of focused contentment by ...

But I’d like to turn your attention to the man behind flow. As today is Csikszentmihalyi’s 89th birthday, let’s look at the impact the famous psychologist has had on science–and the world.

Google Doodle has decided to honour the late Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on his 89th birthday. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was a Hungarian-American psychologist, author and professor, best known for ...

Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a Hungarian-American psychologist, who sadly died last week, is credited for his work on flow theory (click here to watch his TED Talk on “Flow, the Secret to ...