The Hungarian-born psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced Me-high Cheek-sent-me-high) regards this trait as a key element of the autotelic personality — those internally driven people who have a tendency to engage in an activity for its own sake.
Those who have an autotelic personality are said to experience less stress during their complete absorption in an activity, the state he called “flow.”
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