Significant childhood pain can lead to a well-adjusted adult's lifelong theme of service to correct the injustice. We don't get upset because we believe that our life is in God's hands, and whatever He decides will be fine with us." How does someone stay relaxed under extreme pressure? "There is nothing to it. Transformational (not regressive) coping:" "If one operates with unselfconscious assurance, and remains open to the environment and involved in it, a solution is likely to emerge."Ĥ. Is our current ability to specialize jobs a gift of systemic cooperation? Maybe for fortunate people like me who love my work, but certainly not for everyone. Question: The Bible states that work is a punishment for sin. How can I encourage this intrinsic enjoyment in my students? Memorize facts not to memorize, but to gain understanding and contextualized knowledge.Īpplying scientific reasoning, mathematical thinking, is viewed as a pleasurable game by experts in the field. Music, Food: Consume passively or savor actively? These 7 steps can be applied in various contexts, with other ultimate goals. The goal of loss of self is opposite of flow, but the first 7 steps yield greater self-control similar to flow. dhyana: intense meditation (sans external object of 6) dharana: holding on concentrate on single stimulus (opp. pratyahara: withdrawal ability to see, feel, and hear at willĦ.
challenge: parents provide appropriate challenges for their childrenĥ. centering: parents' interest in the child in that momentĥ. concern for self disappears (paradoxically awareness of self is heightened immediately after flow)ĥ elements of happy teenagers' growing up:Ģ. deep, effortless involvement (lack of awareness of worries and frustrations)ħ. confront challenging but completable tasksĥ. My notes, including liberal use of direct quotes:ġ. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason." His works are influential and are widely cited. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Martin Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association, described Csikszentmihalyi as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology.Ĭsikszentmihalyi once said "Repression is not the way to virtue. He is the author of many books and over 120 articles or book chapters. He is noted for both his work in the study of happiness and creativity and also for his notoriously difficult name, in terms of pronunciation for non-native speakers of the Hungarian language, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic. Now at Claremont Graduate University, he is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College. A Hungarian psychology professor, who emigrated to the United States at the age of 22.
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