MODEL 28
CSIKSZENTMIHALYI’S FLOW MODEL AND THE JOY OF WORKING IN ‘THE ZONE’
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, an American psychologist, noted that while people wanted to be happy they had little understanding of what actually made them content. They ran after acclaim, fame, money and a hundred other things that they thought would make them happy only to find that when they achieved it they remained dissatisfied.
Following research with over a thousand participants, Csikszentmihalyi identified five factors which, if present in a person’s work, make them feel happy.
THE FIVE FACTORS ARE CONTAINED ACTIVITIES:
1. that require an intense focus;
2. where ...
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