By that logic, he undoubtedly counted many great moments in his lifetime, authoring numerous books and holding countless titles-not least among them husband, father and grandfather. to friends and colleagues, Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced Chick-SENT-Me-High) once wrote that the best moments in life are not the passive, receptive or relaxing times.
Schmidt, a former UChicago doctoral student who is now an associate professor at Michigan State University. “Mike had a genius for creating simple, generative models of flow, creativity and aesthetic experience, and then unfolding their implications in his writings the impact of his ideas has been remarkably broad,” said Jeanne Nakamura, an associate professor at Claremont Graduate University, where Csikszentmihalyi taught after retiring from UChicago in 1999.Ĭsikszentmihalyi’s work was “like a flashlight in a dark tunnel,” said Jennifer A. He was 87.Īs a scholar, he is best known for creating flow theory-referring to a state of being in which people become so immersed in the joy of their work or activity “that nothing else seems to matter.” He outlined the theory in Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, a seminal 1990 book that influenced leaders from politics to sports. Emeritus Mihaly “Mike” Csikszentmihalyi, a pioneering University of Chicago psychologist known as the “father of flow,” died Oct.
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