PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Foodie, Negentropy, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Is the mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. It is a single-minded immersion and represents perhaps the ultimate in harnessing the emotions in the service of performing and learning. The emotions are not just contained and channeled, but positive, energized, and aligned with the task at hand. A feeling of spontaneous joy while performing a task. A deep focus on nothing but the activity. All you touch and all you see. No one feels joyous or wholesome after watching tv for 4 hours straight. Mihaly csikszentmihalyi interviewed a cross section of people. >students, factory workers, athletes, artists, villagers, mountainous small communities, motorcycle gang members, sailors, office workers, school teachers. He wanted to distill all these narratives and look for commonalities. >does not matter if it"s is a high arousal or low arousal activity.
