Becoming adult : how teenagers prepare for the world of work
Becoming adult : how teenagers prepare for the world of work by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a 2000 Personal Development book written by TED speaker Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "Flow, the secret to happiness" (2008), 8.1M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 8 years before the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 6th of 9 books by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on Books Worth Reading (1981–2014), by publication year.
- Edition: Basic Books, 2000 · 289 pages
The paired TED talk
Flow, the secret to happiness (2008), the TED talk by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
From the publisher
"How do young people envision their occupational futures? In a world of rapid change and uncertain work prospects, what roles do families, schools and communities play in helping teenagers develop habits and values that will be useful in their careers? What do teenagers feel about their schooling and after-school work, and how do these experiences affect their passage to adult work?
These are the questions - never before exposed to systematic research - that psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and sociologist Barbara Schneider posed in their five-year study of adolescents. The students come from an unusually broad cross-section of education institutions - ranging from a magnet school famous for training elite scientific talent to inner-city schools.
The detailed results provide a window of society's future through which we can glimpse how adolescents are preparing themselves for the lives they will lead in the years to come."
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