11/2/2022 0 Comments Getting into the flow experience![]() ![]() I didn’t know what to do so I was walking around Geneva and heard there would be a presentation about flying saucers that was free. ![]() It was very early spring and the snow started melting on the slopes. I like mountains a lot and wanted to take a vacation to Switzerland to ski - but I couldn’t scrounge up enough money to ski. I left school when I was 13 and started working, and saved up enough money to take a vacation. In 1948, the Communist Party took over Hungary, and my father lost his ambassadorship in Rome. Like most people at the end of World War II, I was confused and did not have much faith in the grown-ups and what they were doing. People could develop airplanes, and yet they went systematically about killing each other. It was a situation that didn’t make sense. That and everything being in short supply - meat became almost impossible to get. ![]() We spent most evenings in this basement shelter - to avoid the bombings. They put themselves in situations where they were either killed or being killed and so forth. All these grown-ups who seemed so smart and were always in control of things didn’t know what was happening from one week to the next. By the time I was 8 or 9 years old, the whole social context in which we were embedded fell apart and became kind of toxic in one way or another, and I was very surprised. I was born in a fairly nice, warm, affluent family in 1934 and then as I was growing up, things on the global front started unraveling. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: It’s very hard to know that - you try to construct a story that makes sense I have a pretty good one. Brain World recently had the opportunity to sit down with Csikszentmihalyi and speak to him about his life’s work and the importance of reaching flow.īrain World: So how did you become interested in psychology? In what is considered his most important work, “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience,” Csikszentmihalyi emphasizes that we are at our most content when we find an activity we learn to do well and immerse ourselves in a state of “flow.” He subsequently discussed this concept in a well-received TED Talk available on YouTube. ![]()
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