![]() ![]() Some people may not be able to say anything at all about how they felt while in flow all they know is that they are feeling terrific now when looking back at what they have so expertly accomplished. ![]() Reports of what it feels like are retrospective. Csikszentmihalyi is among the pioneers of the Experience Sampling Method, which opens windows into people’s states as they occur, but the state of flow, by definition, does not allow it. This means that while a person is in a state of flow (e.g., on the dance floor performing an intricate move), this person cannot be asked and cannot report on her state of mind. Csikszentmihalyi reports that the loss of self-consciousness is critical for the experience of flow. ![]() But happy? If flow is related to expertise and if expertise is not (or only weakly) related to happiness, why would flow be related to happiness?Ĭsikszentmihalyi himself seems not too happy with the idea that his theory of flow has been taken to be a theory of happiness. Experts may be respected and perhaps wealthy. How did the theory of flow become a theory of happiness? Few claim that experts are happy. ![]()
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