Flow--A Story from the Sharp End
Between books like Flow in Sports (Csikszentmihalyi & Jackson 1963), Runner’s High (Barrista 2004) and Playing in the Zone (Cooper 1998), there have now been hundreds of anecdotal accounts of the...
View ArticleFlow--Maslow and the Perfect High
In the early 1940s, psychologist Abraham Maslow was an up-and-comer on staff at Brooklyn College, where he was being mentored by anthropologist Ruth Benedict and Gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer....
View ArticleHacking Abundance: An Introduction
Since Steven and Peter published Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think we've noticed that responses tend to fall into one of three main camps: The Techno-Utopians who are delighted to have...
View ArticleHacking Abundance Part I: Developing Better Leaders Faster
#1: (Tech Philanthropists and Beyond) Abundance spends a fair amount of time cataloguing the impact that the radical wealth transfer to younger, more engaged winners of the information economy has had...
View ArticleHacking Abundance Part II: How Big Wave Surfing Just Might Save the World
If the technological, demographic and geopolitical tsunami that Abundance predicts and celebrates is truly coming, we're all going to need to learn to ride giants--fast. That, or risk getting buried...
View ArticleHacking Abundance Part III: Altered States to Altered Traits
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the University of Chicago researcher and father of Flow studies, realized that when learners drop into Flow states, they concentrate more deeply, pick up information more...
View ArticleFlow--Or How That Guy With A Name I Can't Pronounce Coined A Movement
In the 1970s, University of Chicago psychologist and department chairman Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (mee-hi chick-sent-mee-hi) began using the term “flow states” ” (for the ease at which water flows...
View ArticleFlow - The Science Behind the Sensations
Beyond the anecdotal, researchers have also begun trying to understand the science behind these states. In the 1980s, the consensus was that flow (or runner’s high as it was then known) was a byproduct...
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