Mikael Krogerus
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Finland
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“WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY? Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle came to the unsurprising conclusion that what a person wants above all is to be happy. In 1961, the US psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote: ‘While happiness itself is sought for its own sake, every other goal – health, beauty, money or power – is valued only because we expect that it will make us happy.’ Csikszentmihalyi looked for a term that described the state of feeling happy. He called it ‘flow’. But when are we ‘in the flow’? After interviewing over a thousand people about what made them happy, he found that all the responses had five things in common. Happiness, or ‘flow’, occurs when we are: • intensely focused on an activity • of our own choosing, that is • neither under-challenging (boreout) nor over-challenging (burnout), that has • a clear objective, and that receives • immediate feedback. Csikszentmihalyi discovered that people who are ‘in the flow’ not only feel a profound sense of satisfaction, they also lose track of time and forget themselves completely because they are so immersed in what they are doing.”
― The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking
― The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking
“The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. Ann Landers”
― The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking
― The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
― The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking
― The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking
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