Flow — 1 year ago
I remember a book in my 50 books which I had read in 2005, it is Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi.
Csikszentmihalyi’s work was a milestone in psychological research and speaks directly to the game-playing experience. He was the first to really study the feeling of being “in the groove,†whether at physical or mental tasks—the exhilarating feeling of high productivity. That feeling is exactly what the best games create in their players. The book is unnecessarily wordy and has a tendency to say the same thing three times; aside from that, it’s an important contribution to our understanding of how challenges create pleasure.







