The book «Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention» in a 10-minute reading format: reviews of the best books, only the most important and useful.
Mihai Csikszentmihalyi has been a professor at the University of California, Claremont since 1999, and has also been involved in the study of aspects of positive psychology within the framework of the Quality of Life Research Center, which he created.
His other books are Beyond Boredom and Anxiety (1975), The Emerging Personality: The Psychology of the Third Millennium (1993), and In Search of Flow: The Psychology of Engaging in Everyday Life (1997).
QUOTE: “Creative breakthroughs never fall from the sky. They are almost always the fruit of years of hard work and close attention to something. Many creative discoveries are made by chance, especially those related to the field of science, but often a “lucky break” comes after several years of painstaking work. «
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