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Cover of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 2006
Mentioned 13 times across 13 podcasts · 2019–2026
Mention timeline13 mentions
20192026
Where it's mentioned
2026
#1328 Jon Wisman - Why We Must Work: Economic Freedom, Fulfilling Work, and Workplace Democracy
The Dissenter · Nov 2026
“There was a book written in the In the nineteen eighties. Bye. Uh a a man Uh An American. Psychologist within that. uh impossible name it's mahali sist What if he did is he studied What? condition humans were happiest in”
Am I Optimizing Too Much? | Monday Advice
Deep Questions with Cal Newport · Jul 2026
“Mahalley Chick sent me Hali's Book flow, foundational book in in in performance psychology”
Creativity and the human skill AI can't replicate (Day 3) | Open to Work
Squiggly Careers · Jun 2026
“Flow is another book that talks about the neuroscience of creativity”
Radical Acceptance
Hidden Brain · May 2026
“Well, flow, the psychology of optimal experience, was the book written over 20 years ago now by Mihai Chicks and Mihai”
10 Books That Changed My Life
On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Apr 2026
“Book number six is called Flow by Mihai Chickscent Mihai”
Stanford Professors Bill Burnett & Dave Evans On How To Design A Meaningful Life
The Rich Roll Podcast · Mar 2026
“the original book is flow, the psychology of optimal experience”
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan
Modern Wisdom · Feb 2026
“Mihai, Czechs and Mihai, the the positive psychologist who invented the term flow, the psychology of optimal experience, published back in 90-something”
Cognitive Decline Expert: The Disease That Starts in Your 30s but Kills You in Your 70s
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Feb 2026
“The book that changed my mind on that was Flow. by me High Chick Simnei, which actually speaks about the flow state”
2025
#841: Arthur Brooks — Finding The Meaning of Your Life, The Poet's Protocol, The Holy Half-Hour, and Why Your Suffering is Sacred
The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2025
“who wrote the great book Flow”
The hidden power of introverts: How to thrive without changing who you are | Susan Cain (author of "Quiet")
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Mar 2025
“He famously wrote a book about flow”
2023
A conversation with David and Ben from the Acquired podcast
Founders · Mar 2023
“Autotella comes from this book called Flow. A U T O T E L I C maybe. I don't know ... Mihai? Mihai? Yes. It's it is an activity that you do for the sake of itself”
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast)
Acquired · Mar 2023
“Autotella comes from this book called Flow. A U T O T E L I C maybe I don't know”
2019
Jane McGonigal – How Games Make Life Better - [Invest Like the Best, EP.138]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jul 2019
“the book everybody has read. is flow by Mike Chick Sat Mihay”