When You Feel Happiest

Choose one:

1. a) Destination
2. b) Journey

What'd make you more happy?

El journey.

Super happiness comes not from extrinsic rewards, but from being-in-the-zone to accomplish something fabulous.

What Makes: You = Happy

You feel happiest when you immerse yourself in a challenging task that:

• has a clear goal
• provides immediate feedback

That's according to happiness psychologist expert-o Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and his decades of happiness research goodness.

He calls it the flow state, where:

• You're fully lost in your work ' losing self-consciousness and a sense of time.

Think of an NFL quarterback. Two minutes left. Down by 5.

The Keys

1. Define goal: __.
2. Lose yourself in the work.
3. Get feedback.

Be happy.

Immerse yo-self.

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