[打卡]阅读打卡第49天 (Jan 31, 2022) - Flow

Progress: pg.8

Summary/Reflections:

·      Happiness/success cannot be pursued, but must be ensued… it is an unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a course greater than oneself

·      Optimal experience = “The best moments occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile”

o   Optimal experiences add up to form the sense of mastery

o   Flow –> achieve happiness through control over one’s inner life

·      Flow: order in consciousness, a state of mind in which people concentrate on the tasks at hand and forget about everything else. The periods of struggling to overcome challenges

·      Stressful events do not necessarily diminish happiness --> our response to stress does

·      Only our direct control of experience, our ability to derive moment-to-moment enjoyment from everything we do, can overcome the obstacles to fulfillment

Day#1 of Book#3. Stay motivated. Whatever you do.

Happy Chinese New Year! to myself and our fellow readers :)