VOTE: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

180 THINKERS - You decide if Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the right kind of thinker for the Wall of Fame.

The world’s leading researcher on Positive Psychology. No new-age fluff here. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi codified the idea of “flow states,” and their effect on creative production over a long period of time (without using drugs or depression as a crutch). You know that natural high you get when playing video games, or doing really awesome work, where you get so immersed that suddenly, you look up, and it’s hours later and you realize you’ve missed two meals and really have to pee?

Would you like to be able to enter that state of hyper-productivity, even when not on deadline? – David Rhee, Riot, Amsterdam