Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

By
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
1990 • 336 pages

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Art

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Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing From Life
The Story of Art
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
The Nature of Human Creativity
Women in art

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How To Win Friends and Influence People
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Influence
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades

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103 books

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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
A Brief History of Time
Hubble Focus: Our Amazing Solar System
Collapse of Complex Societies
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
Educated: A Memoir
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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23 books

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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
How To Stop Procrastinating: A Simple Guide to Mastering Difficult Tasks and Breaking your Procrastination Habit
Your Brain at Work
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed
Millionaire Success Habits: The Gateway to Wealth & Prosperity

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Genre Self Help

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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
How To Stop Procrastinating: A Simple Guide to Mastering Difficult Tasks and Breaking your Procrastination Habit
Your Brain at Work
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed

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Subject Psychology

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Flowers for Algernon
The Bell Jar
The Silent Patient
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
How To Stop Procrastinating: A Simple Guide to Mastering Difficult Tasks and Breaking your Procrastination Habit
The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed

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Creativity

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High Tide in Tucson
Journal of a Solitude
The cross-country quilters
The Glass Bead Game

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Happiness

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How to Change Your Entire Life by Doing Absolutely Nothing
Sarah, plain and tall
Hometown Tales
Can't wait to get to heaven
This I believe : the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women
Five Good Minutes

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Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
The Grapes of Wrath
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Self-Improvement

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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
The 5AM Club

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Productivity

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
Feel Good Productivity
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10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades

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Other

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The Fault in Our Stars
ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever
Getting Real
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Sun and Steel
A Philosophy of Software Design
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

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Self Improvement

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The Future of Money
Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
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Mindset:The New Psychology of Success

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The Pragmatic Programmer
Introduction to Algorithms
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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Introduction to automata theory, languages, and computation
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Conscious Business

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Science

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Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
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Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
The Cancer Code
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

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Tech Leadership

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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
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Strengths Finder 2.0
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Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life

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