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A review by adamgolden
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
2.0
(2/5★)
While the beginning of Flow seemed promising enough, the repetitive nature and dull writing style quickly got tiresome and made for a slow and painful read. The entirety of the book could really be summarized in a few pages and still contain a majority of the information. While Csikszentmihalyi attempts to tie in a few different concepts together to revolve around the idea of "flow", most of his ideas are just watered down Buddhism and plain common sense. I think this book would have been a lot more tolerable if it was about 200 pages shorter, because in the first 100 you've pretty much read all he has to offer.
While the beginning of Flow seemed promising enough, the repetitive nature and dull writing style quickly got tiresome and made for a slow and painful read. The entirety of the book could really be summarized in a few pages and still contain a majority of the information. While Csikszentmihalyi attempts to tie in a few different concepts together to revolve around the idea of "flow", most of his ideas are just watered down Buddhism and plain common sense. I think this book would have been a lot more tolerable if it was about 200 pages shorter, because in the first 100 you've pretty much read all he has to offer.