MIAMI, Fla. (Sept. 26, 2002) -- One
of the world’s foremost authorities on the psychology of
creativity and human happiness will be presenting a Phi Beta Kappa
Lecture as part of Florida International University’s 30th
anniversary celebration. Milhaly Csikszentmihalyi will lecture
on “Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience” on
Monday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. in the Graham Center Ballroom at FIU-University
Park, Southwest Eighth Street and 107 Avenue. The lecture is free
and open to the public.
Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced chick-sent-me-high-ee) is a Davidson
Professor of Psychology and director of the Quality of Life Research
Center at the Drucker Graduate School of Management of the Claremont
Graduate University. He has devoted his life's work to the study
of what makes people truly happy, satisfied and fulfilled and
is best known as the architect of the concept of “flow”
in creativity.
According to Csikszentmihalyi, people enter a “flow”
state when they are fully absorbed in activity during which they
lose their sense of time and have feelings of great satisfaction.
Csikszentmihalyi describes flow as "being completely involved
in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies.
Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the
previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved,
and you're using your skills to the utmost."
Prior to the Drucker School, Csikszentmihalyi spent more than
20 years at the University of Chicago, where he was a professor
of Human Development and chair of the Department of Psychology.
He co-founded the "Positive Psychology" movement in
the American Psychological Association. He has written 185 journal
articles and 14 books including Flow: The Psychology of Optimal
Experience (1990) and Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement
with Everyday Life (1997). His work has been the subject of major
stories on NOVA, and other television shows and in publications
including Newsweek, The New York Times, and Psychology Today.
For more information on the lecture contact 305-348-2880.
In 2000, Florida International University was awarded a chapter
of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most distinguished collegiate
honorary society. FIU is the youngest university in the country
with a chapter.
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