MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI is professor and former chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. For the past twenty years he has been involved in research on topics related to flow. Funding for these studies has come from the Public Health Service and various private grants, primarily the Spencer Foundation. In addition, a great deal of interest in his work has been building outside academia, spearheaded by substantial articles in Psychology Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Omni, Newsweek, and elsewhere. He is the author of Beyond Boredom and Anxiety, and co-author of The Creative Vision, The Meaning of Things, and Being Adolescent.
Dr. Csikszentmihalyi is a member of the National Academy of Education and National Academy of Leisure Sciences. He has been a Senior Fulbright Fellow and currently sits on several boards, including the Board of Advisers for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He has appeared on a number of foreign television networks, such as the BBC and RAI (Italian television), and has taken part in several hourlong segments of “Nova.”