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Optimal experience — flow — is consciousness ordered by clear goals and matched challenge, making life feel worth living.
work-as-meaning
Surgeons mention how well defined their goals are… he can sew up the incision with the sense of a job well done.
VLA-3B212781-RC-154Our self is largely defined by what happens in those two contexts, as Freud recognized in his prescription of 'love and work' for happiness.
VLA-3B212781-RC-162self-and-identity
He built this accidental event into a structure of goals… which became a central element of his self.
VLA-3B212781-RC-037Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.
VLA-3B212781-RC-011mind-and-cognition
Attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.
VLA-3B212781-RC-035People who know how to transform stress into enjoyable challenge spend very little time thinking about themselves.
VLA-3B212781-RC-202Illuminates
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