Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has identified… an important contributing factor of happiness – engaging in new experiences… that broaden our horizons. “Whenever we discover new challenges,” he writes, “whenever we use new skills, we feel a deep sense of enjoyment. To repeat this desirable feeling, we must find ever higher challenges, build more sophisticated skills; in doing so we help the evolution of complexity move along….”
He popularized this notion in Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, and described it as that sense of “being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you’re using your skills to the utmost.”
It’s Always Personal: Navigating Emotion in the New Workplace. 2011. Random House.
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