Flow in Sports
- ISBN-10
- 0880118768
- ISBN-13
- 9780880118767
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 183
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics
- Authors
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Susan A. Jackson
Description
Describes how athletes reach a high level of performance in which they feel perfectly attuned toward their sport
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