010: How To Unlock The Secret To Happiness - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Lessons from Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He was a professor of psychology and education at the University of Chicago, and he's the author of the bestselling Flow.

Finding Flow is a guide to reclaiming ownership of our lives. And a call to dedicate our lives to increasing our capacity for flow states through complete engagement to achieve higher satisfaction levels.

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00:00- What is flow?

04:43 - Why you want flow states in your life?

06:20 - Psychic entropy

08:00 - Industrial revolution and the desire for leisure time

09:47 - The difference in work styles of the West and tribes

12:10 - Workaholic vs. craftsman

14:50 - Happiness requires flow states

16:25 - Do activities that give you purpose and dream big

19:10 - Why having a goal is a perquisite for achieving flow

20:25 - Don’t let genetics or environment determine your life

23:48 - Meditation as an example of getting into flow

27:00 - The opposite of flow is hell

30:15 - Active vs. passive leisure activities

41:02 - The killer of flow states & embracing solitude to increase your capacity for flow

46:00 - Autotelic individual and doing work that decreases entropy

51:05 - Challenges

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IJ Makan is a philosopher, designer, and martial artist.

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