Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play / Edition 1

ISBN-13:	9780787951405
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	03/28/2000
Edition description:	25th Anniversary Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.32(w) x 9.41(h) x 1.07(d)

Now in a special 25th anniversary edition and filled with brilliant wisdom and insights, Beyond Boredom and Anxiety offers a timeless introduction to the concept of flow and the scientific basis behind it-all through the work of one of the field's great scientists, Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi. Through real-life examples, discover how enjoyable activities provide a common experience-a satisfying, often exhilarating, feeling of creative accomplishment and heightened functioning-and under what conditions 'serious' work can also provide this intrinsic enjoyment.