Flow: Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Book Club

Full Title: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Suggested by: Extra
ISBN: 9780061876721 (Originally listed edition, and Edition Eugene is using)

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While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What is the optimal experience (flow)?
•What happens during flow?
•How to achieve flow?
•What role does the mind have in flow?
•How to gain mastery over consciousness?
•How does culture and external stimuli effect chaos?
•How to be happy?
•Do people experience the same events the same ways?
•What is the paradox of rising expectations?
•Why does it appear that ancient societies were better able to control their lives?
•How much can the state of mind be controlled?
•How is memory used?
•What is consciousness?
•What is psychic disorder?
•Why is a challenge needed?
•How does the individual think about the self?
•How to have a feeling of control?
•What is an autotelic experience?
•What effect does music have?
•Can flow influence work?
•How to use free time?
•How do other people effect the individual?
•What is cultural relativism?
•How do drugs effect the mind?
•What is the effect of socialization?
•What does reality think about human desires?
•What is the point of pleasure?
•How to use natures programming?
•What is the point of writing?

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.