Flow Summary & Review (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) - ANIMATED

This animated Flow summary with show you what "flow" really is and how to implement it in your life. It is a lot easier than you expect!

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (don't even try to pronounce his last name!) is a psychologist whose professional and personal passion was to figure out what an "optimal experience" is. How come some experiences bring you joy and satisfaction while others were just meh.

Csikszentmihalyi shares his best tactics and advice on how to experience deep enjoyment, creativity and total involvement in you life, in his best-selling book "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience". With the help of this video summary, in just a few minutes, you'll be able to understand what "flow" is and most importantly, how to implement all these tactics in your life. Not to mention, the video is completely FREE, while you'll have to spend a few bucks to get your own copy of the Flow book ;)

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The best course of action is the following - watch this Flow summary and learn about the best tactics and mindsets of getting in charge of your life and bringing more flow to it. Apply them at home (and at work). If you are happy with the results (as you most likely will be), head over to Amazon or to your favorite bookstore and get yourself a copy of the actual book. This way you dig deeper into these teachings only once you have proven they can work for you.

This Flow summary gives you, not only what the book is about, but how to actually apply it. Because, let's be honest, you can read the book, or listen to the Flow audiobook... BUT unless you start applying what you've learned, nothing will change in your personal and professional life (isn't that always the case?!)

Watch this animated summary, take action, apply the tactics to your life and you'll see dramatic results. I had the intention initially to do a Flow PDF, but honestly, an animated video review is so much more fun to create, and to consume :)

Understanding Csikszentmihalyi's tactics and putting them them to work has never been easier - it only takes 10 minutes.

As always, post your comments and questions below. Smash that LIKE button and let me know what book you'd want me to summarize and review next.

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[kusumsharma]

I really loved the point on 'Adapting to the new opportunities'. I kind off learned it with a twist of my own but really thanks for sending me to that path. Thanks a lot.

[deneszombori]

I loved that part at 2.03, when you told that it requires full attention and immediately put the like button to the corner :) And maybe this comment would be an easter egg to my colleagues :)

[code]

Well explained video. If watched video, along with taking notes. Its highly informative. I am highly interested in applying these principles to personal life, work etc. Thank you.

[AmadeJong]

Not scrolling through facebook, but realizing I can’t pay full attention to the narrator, because there is soft music in the background.

[transformxruby]

"youre also scrolling through facebook" well shit

[ajmarr]

Peak or ‘flow’ Experience Explained in 2 minutes: A new perspective from affective neuroscience

It has recently been demonstrated (link below) that reward uncertainty or novelty can enhance the sensory experience of high value reward. In other words, popcorn actually tastes better when we are watching exciting movies, and tastes worse when we are attending a funeral. This is due to what are called dopamine-opioid interactions, or the fact that dopamine activity (elicited by positive novel events, and is responsible for a state of arousal, but not pleasure) interacts with our pleasures (as reflected by opioid release), and can actually stimulate opioid activity, which is reflected in self-reports of greater pleasure.

Opioid release occurs when we are consuming food and drink, but it also occurs when our musculature is in a state of inactivity or rest, which is why relaxation feels good. Thus it follows that any behaviors which have a lot of positive reward uncertainty (creating art, climbing mountains, etc.) will stimulate naturally occurring opioid activity in concurrent resting states, with subsequent self-reports of high arousal and pleasure, which precisely describes all peak or flow experiences. In other words, peak experience is simply opioid-dopamine interactions due to pursuing positive novel events during a state of rest. Furthermore, as dopamine release scales with the salience of the activity, so will the resulting peak experience. We also see this for peak or flow experiences, where the pleasure and arousal scales with the importance of the task. Thus a rock climber who is risking his life would have a more intense experience than if he were attached to a tether that would break his fall.


The book is based on the work of the distinguished affective neuroscientist Kent Berridge, who was kind to review for accuracy and endorse the work.


Rauwolf, P., et al. (2021) Reward uncertainty - as a 'psychological salt'- can alter the sensory experience and consumption of high-value rewards in young healthy adults.