Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
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"Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life" is a popular psychology book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi that explores how people can achieve optimal experiences and deeper satisfaction by fully immersing themselves in everyday activities.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10883393 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life Context triple: [Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, notableWork, Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life]
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A.
The Experience of Activity
"The Experience of Activity" is a philosophical essay by William James that explores how our direct, lived sense of acting and exerting effort underpins his radical empiricist account of experience and reality.
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The Power of Full Engagement
The Power of Full Engagement is a self-help and performance book that argues managing energy—not time—is the key to achieving high performance and personal renewal.
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C.
The Secret Value of Daydreaming
The Secret Value of Daydreaming is Julian Lennon's 1986 pop-rock studio album that showcases his melodic songwriting and solidified his early solo career beyond his famous lineage.
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D.
Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort
"Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort" is a seminal 1949 book by linguist George Kingsley Zipf that proposes people naturally minimize effort in language and behavior, helping explain patterns such as Zipf’s law in word frequencies.
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E.
The Business of Happiness
The Business of Happiness is a book by entrepreneur and sports team owner Ted Leonsis that blends memoir and business advice to argue that true success comes from pursuing happiness, meaning, and service to others alongside financial achievement.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life Target entity description: "Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life" is a popular psychology book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi that explores how people can achieve optimal experiences and deeper satisfaction by fully immersing themselves in everyday activities.
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A.
The Experience of Activity
"The Experience of Activity" is a philosophical essay by William James that explores how our direct, lived sense of acting and exerting effort underpins his radical empiricist account of experience and reality.
-
B.
The Power of Full Engagement
The Power of Full Engagement is a self-help and performance book that argues managing energy—not time—is the key to achieving high performance and personal renewal.
-
C.
The Secret Value of Daydreaming
The Secret Value of Daydreaming is Julian Lennon's 1986 pop-rock studio album that showcases his melodic songwriting and solidified his early solo career beyond his famous lineage.
-
D.
Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort
"Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort" is a seminal 1949 book by linguist George Kingsley Zipf that proposes people naturally minimize effort in language and behavior, helping explain patterns such as Zipf’s law in word frequencies.
-
E.
The Business of Happiness
The Business of Happiness is a book by entrepreneur and sports team owner Ted Leonsis that blends memoir and business advice to argue that true success comes from pursuing happiness, meaning, and service to others alongside financial achievement.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| instanceOf |
book
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popular psychology book ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
help readers find meaning in everyday activities
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help readers increase engagement in daily life ⓘ provide practical strategies for achieving flow ⓘ |
| author | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ⓘ |
| basedOn | flow theory ⓘ |
| describes |
balance between challenge and skill
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clear goals and immediate feedback ⓘ conditions for entering flow state ⓘ distorted sense of time in flow ⓘ intrinsic motivation ⓘ loss of self-consciousness in flow ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
active involvement in shaping one’s experience
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cultivating skills to match challenges ⓘ developing an autotelic personality ⓘ |
| explores |
differences between work and leisure experiences
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how people structure their time ⓘ how personality influences capacity for flow ⓘ how social relationships affect flow ⓘ how to transform routine tasks into optimal experiences ⓘ relationship between goals and enjoyment ⓘ role of attention in happiness ⓘ |
| genre |
psychology
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self-help ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | positive psychology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
attention
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autotelic experience ⓘ consciousness ⓘ creativity ⓘ engagement ⓘ everyday activities ⓘ flow (psychology) ⓘ happiness ⓘ life satisfaction ⓘ motivation ⓘ optimal experience ⓘ personal growth ⓘ quality of life ⓘ well-being ⓘ work and leisure ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general readers
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self-help readers ⓘ students of psychology ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life Description of subject: "Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life" is a popular psychology book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi that explores how people can achieve optimal experiences and deeper satisfaction by fully immersing themselves in everyday activities.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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notableWork
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Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
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