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Now in a special 25th anniversary edition and filled with brilliant wisdom and insights, Beyond Boredom and Anxiety offers a timeless introduction to the concept of flow and the scientific basis behind it-all through the work of one of the field's great scientists, Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi. Through real-life examples, discover how enjoyable activities provide a common experience-a satisfying, often exhilarating, feeling of creative accomplishment and heightened functioning-and under what conditions 'serious' work can also provide this intrinsic enjoyment.

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• Preface to the 25th Anniversary Edition (p. ix)
• Acknowledgments to the First Edition (p. xxix)
• Part 1
• 1. Enjoyment and Intrinsic Motivation (p. 1)
• 2. Rewards of Autotelic Activities (p. 13)
• 3. Structure of Autotelic Activities (p. 24)
• Part 2
• 4. A Theoretical Model for Enjoyment (p. 35)
• 5. Enjoying Games: Chess (p. 55)
• 6. Deep Play and the Flow Experience in Rock Climbing (p. 74)
• 7. Measuring the Flow Experience in Rock Dancing (p. 102)
• 8. Enjoying Work: Surgery (p. 123)
• Part 3
• 9. Flow Patterns in Everyday Life (p. 140)
• 10. Effects of Flow Deprivation (p. 161)
• 11. Politics of Enjoyment (p. 179)
• Tests and Procedures Used in Microflow Experiments (p. 207)
• References (p. 215)
• Index (p. 225)