The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times. The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934 – 2021)
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A more complete obituary (in English):

"Mihály Csíkszentmihályi- Flow Theory Architect, Hungarian-American Psychologist, Dies Aged 88"

https://hungarytoday.hu/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-flow-theory-architect-dies/

That also links a TEDx talk by Csikszentmihalyi:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fXIeFJCqsPs

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has died

Best known, and far more easily spelty by English-speakers, for his work on the pschology of flow states, particularly in his book Flow, he was a Hungarian-American psychologist associated with Caremont Graduate University, the University of Chicago, and Lake Forest College.

I'd had a brief email exchange with him over a concept he'd raised in an essay. Discussion drifted to other Hugarian (and Austrian) notables, ncluding the Polanyis (Karl and Michael). He'd known their neice, Eva Zeisel Polanyi, a ceramicist, and he dropped this small-world gem:

Karl Popper used to go hunting in the summers through the Carpatian Mountains with my grandfather; occasionally they were joined by August von Hayek, who later also got a Nobel in Economics . . . I learned a lot about my grandfather from him . . . And indirectly a lot from Popper, whose Das Logik Der Vorschung (translated into English with the strange title of The Logic of Scientific Discovery) was for years my Bible.

I'd first heard of his Flow concept on a public radio interview I caught whilst on a road-trip through a remote rural high plateau, in the 1990s. Highly memorable and mildly surreal listening to his voice as the countryside flowed past.

Vale, Mihaly.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28940227

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/sbkaufman/status/1450946151352471553

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