Flow
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The psychologist who developed flow theory through decades of research on optimal experience
Csikszentmihalyi studied what makes experiences genuinely satisfying across cultures and activities
Flow
The state of complete absorption in an activity where action and awareness merge
Flow is the optimal experience of being fully immersed in what you are doing losing self-consciousness
Optimal Experience
Moments when we feel in control of our actions masters of our fate
Optimal experience occurs when we are fully engaged with challenges matching our skills
Autotelic
Doing something for its own sake rather than for external reward
An autotelic activity is intrinsically rewarding needing no outside justification
Psychic Entropy
Mental disorder and anxiety when information conflicts with goals
Psychic entropy is the chaos of consciousness when we cannot focus or feel threatened
Psychic Negentropy
The ordered focused state of consciousness characteristic of flow
Negentropy is the opposite of entropy bringing order and harmony to consciousness
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