In the mid-1970s, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi published "Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play." In this book, he identifies a blissful "flow channel" that's created when someone ...

A person is in a state of flow when they are totally immersed in a task. When a person is “in flow,” they may not notice time passing, think about why they are doing the task, or judge their efforts.

Prof. Emeritus Mihaly “Mike” Csikszentmihalyi, a pioneering University of Chicago psychologist known as the “father of flow,” died Oct. 20 at his home in Claremont, California. He was 87. As a scholar ...