The book reviewed in the foreword by Dr. Zoltan Buzady Associate Professor of Leadership, Corvinus University of BudapestDirector, Leadership & Flow Global Research Network “Running Flow” Mental immersion techniques for better running An international bestseller book by Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi CSIKSZENTMIHALYI “A Futás Öröme” (Libri Kiadó, 2018) ITT. “I am too stressed out! I am trying hard to do my…
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30 Years Jubilee: Super Bowl, Flow, Creativity & You!
Today, 30 years ago, in 1993, in February, a set of rather extraordinary and important events happened. Many people have been inspired to creativity by the ideas of Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. But only a few people know that the widespread use of the Flow theory is the result of “an unusual association. In 1993 Jimmy Johnson, coach…
Flow Leadership in Business – The optimal experience
One might think that it’s possible to put together a super team just by choosing individuals who represent great skills. But they forget, that after a while individuals do bring their own personality and their personal style to the group work. For example, one person is particularly keen on time management, the next one on values…
Flow, leadership and serious games – a pedagogical perspective
By: Zoltan Buzady (Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary)In: World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable DevelopmentVol. 14 Issue: 2/3, pp.204-217, DOI: 10.1108/WJSTSD-05-2016-0035Download here. This paper briefly outlines the relevance of flow, a core concept of positive psychology increasingly applied in leadership development and in serious gaming revealing that the quality of leadership across various…
Flow, Leadership and Serious Games: A Pedagogical Perspective – Part 1
By: Zoltan Buzady Ph.D., Central European University Business School, Hungary. Overview This special issue of the ‘World Journal of Science, Technology, and Sustainable Development’ focuses on new, computer-based and/or online learning tools with the aim to present current trends and innovations to professionals, consultants, instructors, and academics. The author of this contribution is a researcher…
Book Review: FLOW The Psychology of Happiness
This blog entry is from our guest author: Bernie Gourley (Writer and Yoga Teacher) Recently, I read and reviewed Steven Kotler’s “The Rise of Superman”, which is about how extreme athletes use a mental state called “the flow” to pull off some miraculous feats (e.g. “hanging righteous air” to use an appropriate term of art.) That…
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Parts of Prof. Csikszentmihalyi’s commencement address
This blogpost contains parts of Prof. Csikszentmihalyi’s commencement speech addressed at the Colorado College in 2002. Even though this commencement address is 14 years old now, still contains ultimate truths that could serve as guiding principles of life: “Now that you are poised for this great transition, about to leave the safe for the unknown, it…
The concept of Flow not only originates from but now also inspires young artists
“FLOW” from Menno Wisselink is an inspiring 3 minutes art-video. He writes: “My graduation project is a short movie about the feeling Flow. I started judo when I was 5 years old. From that time I experienced moments were time would stand still, and at the same, flies by. Moments of total joy and intense happiness. Such…