Flow

Happiness is not something that happens. It is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. 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.

Optimal experience - sense of exhileration, deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like. It is something we MAKE happen since these moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its
limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

Theory of optimal experience based on concept of FLOW - state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.

Milhaly Csikszentmihaly

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