PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Degree Of Difficulty, Peak Experience
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The way to do is to be tao to ching. Peak experience, most alive gather these people"s narrative, he gathers rich data from variety of age group and people. Subjective quality when people describe these peak experiences, he found that there"s universal content. He thinks about it as a guide optimal living similar type of experiences= guide to life. The life is about the quality of moments that we live in, any events can be peak experience (how we doing it can cause the emergence of this experience). Balance of the challenge and the skills that a person have. Difficulty (graph) (diagram: too much skill, not much of difficulty (bored)- extreme. Complete absorption= emerging of action of awareness, you essentially absorbed in the activity: flow= super fluidity, effortlessness= no longer need control, goal directed activities (can be anything), we can have a few goal directed activity at one time.
