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[Watching television] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what the material might be. There is, indeed, no other experience in a [person’s] life that permits quite so much intake while demanding so little outflow.
In his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi shares decades of study on “optimal experience”—those times when people are happiest that make life worth living. His investigations have revealed that genuinely satisfying experiences occur in a state of consciousness called “flow”—a state of focused and intense concentration in which there is a feeling of transcendence. Csikszentmihalyi ...
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