Aprender a fluir

Por Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

¿Cómo pasamos los días? ¿Qué es lo que nos proporciona placer? ¿Cómo nos sentimos cuando comemos, vemos la televisión, tenemos relaciones sexuales, trabajamos, conducimos el choche o charlamos con los amigos?
En base a un extenso estudio de miles de personas, Aprender a fluir sostiene que, por lo general, pasamos los días inconscientes de nuestra vida emocional y sin contacto alguno con ella. La consecuencia es que vamos saltando de un extremo al otro: viviendo con ansiedad el trabajo cotidiano e inmersos en el aburrimiento durante el ocio. Ahora bien, cabe salir de esta asfixiante pendulación.
Mitad estudio psicológico, mitad libro de autoayuda, Aprender a fluir es una guía preceptiva enormemente útil que nos conduce a recuperar la plenitud de nuestra propia vida. La clave está en ponernos retos, tareas que exijan un alto grado de concentración y compromiso, en lugar de ceder a un hedonismo hueco.
Pionero de la llamada "psicología de la vida cotidiana", y autor del best-seller mundial Fluir (Flow), M. Csikszentmihalyi nos empuja hacia una más plena y más feliz, y a experimentar la alegría del compromiso total con lo que se está haciendo a cada momento.
Aprender a fluir es un libro que realmente puede cambiar nuestra vida.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Editorial Kairós
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 1 ene 2012
• ISBN: 9788499882932

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934-2021) was a professor at Claremont Graduate University and former chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. His books include Creativity, The Evolving Self and the national bestseller Flow.

Comentarios para Aprender a fluir

[timbrown5 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Concept that our leisure can be active and passive; we can involve ourselves in short-term rewarding relaxation t-v watching with diminishing returns, or more fulfilling active study, learning an instrument, experimentation, or hobby where there is high-difficulty and high-skill.. In these situations it may require and initial investment of time before a sense of getting somewhere; the author refers to the sense of time-flying, as 'flow.' An 'Autotelic' person is one who has purpose on the inside, and isn't as much motivated by outside rewards, or is self-motivated; a self-starter. He suggests that a person learning music, to be a scientist, doing prayer/meditation, or working out, focus on building attention rather than the rewards that may follow from the discipline. Building attention and concentration will improve flow in said person's life. Highly interesting book with better core ideas than most, but with some filler and repetition.

[tyroeternal · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I found this book to be an enjoyable introduction to the concept of flow. The combination of self-help meets science, along with it's small size made the topic enjoyable and interesting. Despite the author's tendency to stray a bit far into humanistic realms than I choose to follow, I moved on to read this book's prequel: 'Flow'.

[Erik Lora · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

El libro no es muy práctico que digamos, a pesar de que el libro se llama "Aprender a fluir", pero eso si, creo que la información en parte es relevante, la teoría está ahí, lo demás depende de ti. No creo que lo recomendaría a alguien que no lee muy seguido.

[razinha-1 · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

The more I read about psychology, the more I wonder how people can't smell the snake oil. I'm in a management development program and Csikszentmihalyi's work was recommended. Perhaps I got the wrong one. This was certainly a load of rubbish.

Opinions as fact, conclusions tailored to support the thesis, odd references to ESP and spirituality, the only thing I can recommend is he has a really cool name.

I pulled the thread on a few of the topics and felt my skin crawl reading up on "psychic entropy." I studied thermodynamics and can only feel sadness if these guys have to borrow terms from real science to legitimize the flimsiness of theirs.

Habitual readers of self-help tripe might like this book. Nuff said.