{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of \"optimal experience\" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience teaches how, by ordering the information that enters our consciousness, we can discover true happiness and greatly improve the quality of our lives."}, "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Includes bibliographical references."}, "identifiers": {"goodreads": ["66328"], "librarything": ["13383"], "wikidata": ["Q106903485"]}, "title": "Flow", "subtitle": "the psychology of optimal experience", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL33636A"}], "publish_date": "1990", "publishers": ["Harper & Row"], "ia_box_id": ["IA114213"], "covers": [9082625, 5414857, 4939579, 4551801, 4095524], "local_id": ["urn:sfpl:31223043255885"], "publish_places": ["New York"], "subjects": ["Happiness", "Attention"], "pagination": "xii, 303 p. :", "source_records": ["marc:marc_oregon_summit_records/catalog_files/pcc_bibs.mrc_rev.mrc:77310818:793", "ia:flowpsychologyof00csik", "marc:marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary/sfpl_chq_2018_12_24_run01.mrc:57028241:1335", "bwb:9780061339202", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part19.utf8:118365610:670", "bwb:9780060162535", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.13.20150123.full.mrc:400066679:863", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-009.mrc:490405834:1087", "idb:9780060162535", "idb:9780061339202", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-002.mrc:450958463:1173", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.01.20150123.full.mrc:808955325:1764", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_067.bib.mrc:140176683:2530"], "edition_name": "1st ed.", "by_statement": "Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.", "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "ocaid": "flowpsychologyof00csik", "isbn_10": ["0060162538"], "isbn_13": ["9780061339202"], "lccn": ["89045645"], "dewey_decimal_class": ["155.2"], "lc_classifications": ["BF575.H27  C85 1990", "BF575.H27 C85 1990", "BF575.H27C85 1990"], "oclc_numbers": ["809004869", "20392741"], "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "key": "/books/OL18354762M", "number_of_pages": 303, "works": [{"key": "/works/OL278571W"}], "latest_revision": 28, "revision": 28, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-10-16T08:50:34.191084"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-09-03T09:41:19.660380"}}