Finding Flow: The PsyChology of Engagement with Everyday Life

It is part psychological research, part guidance to help us become masters of our own lives. A survey of thousands of people showed how often we are not aware of what is happening in our emotional life. As a result, we fall into one of two extremes: when doing business, we are most often stressed and anxious because of work and many obligations, and in moments of leisure, we begin to feel bored. Csikszentmihalyi sees the key to solving this problem in setting ourselves tasks that make us us...