Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who described the ‘flow’ of human creativity, dies at 87

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who described the ‘flow’ of human creativity, dies at 87
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The psychologist wrote best-selling books about focused mental and physical activity as a route to happiness.

For his work with teens, he developed a novel research method by giving them beepers, which went off randomly throughout the day. The teens then completed a short questionnaire, explaining what they were doing at that moment and how they felt.

It often requires years of practice to reach the peak levels of competence and agility. Depending on the activity, it does not necessarily produce a feeling of pleasure — until afterward.“It’s not that a person feels particularly happy” while caught up in flow, Dr. Csikszentmihalyi told the Seattle Times in 1991, “because there is no time really for feeling. But it’s an experience that in retrospect you say, ‘That felt really great,’ and you try to repeat it, you try to get back into that state.

“Ours was the last train out of Budapest. The Russians blew up the bridge over the Danube just after we passed.”

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