![]() ![]() People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.”Īgain: we are not happy because of what’s “out there,” but because of what’s going on “in here.” It’s not about the external things it’s about our inner experience of them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. ![]() It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. It is not something that money can buy or power command. “It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. “What I ‘discovered’ was that happiness is not something that happens,” he writes in the introduction. It’s not about what happens “out there” in the world, but how we respond to it and how we experience it “in here,” in consciousness. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience is a 1990 book on happiness and how to obtain it.Īccording to Csikszentmihalyi, happiness is achieved not through external means (e.g., money, fame, influence, or material riches) but by controlling consciousness – by controlling our inner, moment-to-moment experience of life. ![]()
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