When You Feel Happiest
Choose one:
- a) Destination
- b) Journey
What'd make you more happy?
El journey.
Super happiness comes not from extrinsic rewards, but from being-in-the-zone to accomplish something fabulous.
What Makes: You = Happy
You feel happiest when you immerse yourself in a challenging task that:
- has a clear goal
- provides immediate feedback
That's according to happiness psychologist expert-o Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and his decades of happiness research goodness.
He calls it the flow state, where:
- You're fully lost in your work ' losing self-consciousness and a sense of time.
Think of an NFL quarterback. Two minutes left. Down by 5.
The Keys
- Define goal: __.
- Lose yourself in the work.
- Get feedback.
Be happy.
Immerse yo-self.
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Posted on April 11