..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was a 20th-century American american psychologist. Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi was a Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Happiness — Thoughts on finding joy, contentment, and fulfilment