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The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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The author of the bestselling Flow offers an intelligent, inspiring guide to life in the future.

In this wise, humane inquiry, Csikszentmihalyi argues that genetically programmed behaviors that once helped humans adapt and multiply now threaten our survival. These traits include obsessions with food and sex, addiction to pleasure, excessive rationality and a tendency to focus on the negative. A University of Chicago psychology professor, the author also believes we must free our minds of cultural illusions such as ethnocentric superiority or identification with one's possessions. He urges readers to find ways to reduce the oppression, exploitation and inequality that are woven into the fabric of society. Further, he wants us to control the direction of human evolution by pursuing challenging activities that lead to greater complexity while opposting chaos and conformity. Each chapter concludes with self-help questions and mental exercises designed to help readers apply the insights of this literate manifesto to their daily lives.

Language: English

Pages: 384

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Release: June 03, 1994

ISBN: 0060921927

ISBN 13: 9780060921927

The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

4/5 ( ratings)

The author of the bestselling Flow offers an intelligent, inspiring guide to life in the future.

In this wise, humane inquiry, Csikszentmihalyi argues that genetically programmed behaviors that once helped humans adapt and multiply now threaten our survival. These traits include obsessions with food and sex, addiction to pleasure, excessive rationality and a tendency to focus on the negative. A University of Chicago psychology professor, the author also believes we must free our minds of cultural illusions such as ethnocentric superiority or identification with one's possessions. He urges readers to find ways to reduce the oppression, exploitation and inequality that are woven into the fabric of society. Further, he wants us to control the direction of human evolution by pursuing challenging activities that lead to greater complexity while opposting chaos and conformity. Each chapter concludes with self-help questions and mental exercises designed to help readers apply the insights of this literate manifesto to their daily lives.

Language: English

Pages: 384

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Release: June 03, 1994

ISBN: 0060921927

ISBN 13: 9780060921927

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