Happiness doesn’t just happen: it must be cultivated, says Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, who has studied what he calls optimal experience. We are happiest when we are absorbed in a state of concentration so focused that everything else is falls away. At those times, we experience effortless control, a sense of discovery, and high levels of performance, breaking through previous barriers.
Psychologist Csíkszentmihályi coined the name flow for the idea of delving so deeply in an activity that we lose track of time ...
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