Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

The root of the word “compete” is the Latin con petire, which means to seek together Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Roger Caillouis, has divided the world’s games into four broad classes, depending on the kind of experience they provide. Agon include games that have competition as their main feature, sıcj as most sports and athletic events; alea is the class that includes all games of chance, from dice to bingo; ilinx, or vertigo, is the name he gives to activities that alter consciousness by scrambling ordinary perception, such as riding a merry-go-round or skydiving; and mimicry is the group of activities in which alternative realities are created, such as dance, theatre and the arts in general.