![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps the best example is the endorphin question. And, in many cases, these early attempts at unpacking this mystery only exacerbated the problem. The neurobiology of the state remained a mystery. ![]() A blizzard of other researchers came in and validated and extended these ideas, but no one really figured out how to replace the anecdotal with the empirical. Csikszentmihalyi identified three causes for flow and seven characteristic features of the state. Certainly, psychologists made a good show of it. Unfortunately, this solid foundation didn’t last.įlow was a black box, an astoundingly intriguing phenomena accessible only through subjective recall. The theories got a little fuzzier with the human potential movement of the 1960s, but seemed to land on much firmer ground with Csikszentmihalyi in the 1970s. The great psychologist Abraham Maslow prodded the topic again in the 1940s, finding flow states (which he called “peak experiences”) a shared commonality among all successful people. ![]()
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