Flow (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Psychology
- Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology
- Subjects: Language or languages, Power, personal or social, Nature, Science or scientists, Religion, Polygamy or bigamy, Human race, Money, Birds, Buddha, Happiness, Shinto, Interviewing
The pursuit of happiness?
Happiness, as the signers of the Declaration of Independence knew, is crucial. From the happiness of pure survival under adverse conditions, via the strange happiness of those who take pleasure in their pains, to the hard-won happiness of those whose skilled labors achieve fruition, the pursuit of happiness in some form or another occupies the human race. If money and power seem to promise happiness, money and power will be sought after. If; as the bumper stickers proclaim, happiness is “being a grandmother” or “being Irish,” there will be...
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