Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Audio & Video

In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity.

Check out this TED talk from psychology professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who authored the book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Csikszentmihalyi talks about how he became interested in psychology after World War II when he heard a lecture by Carl Jung.

A discussion about the science of happiness with Claudia Wallis, Editor-at-Large of "Time" magazine, Martin Seligman, Director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi of Claremont Graduate University and Alan Krueger of Princeton University.

Most of us face certain dilemmas in our jobs between living according to our own principles of doing good and complying to the need to make a good living.

Since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi published his groundbreaking book Flow more than a decade ago...

Part psychological study, part self-help book, Finding Flow is a prescriptive guide that helps us reclaim ownership of our lives.

The classic study of the creative process from the national best-selling author of Flow, Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living.

In this wise, humane inquiry, Csikszentmihalyi (Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience) argues that genetically programmed behaviors that once helped humans adapt and multiply now threaten our survival.