PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Time Series, Multiperspectivity
13 Apr 2018
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Having a vital and meaningful life is understanding the concept of flow. Tv watching said by csikszentmihalyi as the opp of flow. People have stopped watching tv, instead they watch it from the television. Found that for people >45, they spend a couple hours a week watching tv (6 hours a day) Csikszentmihalyi found that when interviewing people who were performing touch activities with no reward eg. surfing, he found that they each enjoyed the actual experience of it where flow originated. The phenomenology of being so immersed in the activity that you feel as though you are carried away by it. Flow experiences add to your everyday experiences. One of the dangers of flow is that it is addictive. Flow, by csikszentmihalyi flow= a sense of effortless action felt in moments that stand out as the best in our lives. Eg. when surfing, its to stay up on the board.
