Le BONHEUR comme indice d'épanouissement social et économique.

Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow."

What makes you excited? When is it that you feel part of something larger? Play the piano. Be with your best friend. Work, if you like working. Concentrate and focus of one topic. Bring yourself into that flow channel as often as possible in everyday life! Flow in Poetry is "opening a door". Flow, experienced by responsable and ethical CEOs, is "something that helps others and makes you feel happy?" Not only knowing, but doing is important. Your skills and your challenges need to be close, then you will not be unable to cope or on the other hand unchallenged.

When is a person in flow? How does it feel to be in flow?

- Completely involved in what we are doing - focused, concentrated.

- A sense of ecstasy - of being outside everyday reality.

- Great inner clarity - knowing what needs to be done, and how ell we are doing.

- Knowing that the activity is doable - that our skills are adequate to the task.

- A sense of serenity - no worries about oneself, and a feeling of growing beyond th eboundaries of the ego.

- Timelessness - thouroughly focused on the present, hours seem to pass by in minutes.

- Intrinsic motivation - whatever produces flow becomes its own reward.

"How to live life as a work of art, rather than as a chaotic response to external events..."

http://austega.com/gifted/16-gifted/articles/24-flow-and-mihaly-csikszentmihalyi.html

Finding Flow: The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. 1997

http://www.enlightenment.com/media/bookrevs/findflow.html

Review of Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly. "Flow" includes the importance of learning how to control the contents of our consciousness as well as how to get ourselves more consistently into the state of optimal experience known as Flow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTPH4b8g6Mw

http://www.PhilosophersNotes.com

Mihaly's work is fundamental to understanding the inputs that go into leading a fulfilling, meaningful career and/or life. Other writers and researchers who we feel build on this are Simon Sinek (Start With Why), Daniel Pink (Drive), Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers) and, from a more academic, positive psychology perspective, Jonathan Haidt (The Happiness Hypothesis, UVA), Daniel Gilbert (Stumbling on Happiness, Harvard), Chris Peterson (UMichigan) & Martin Seligman (Authentic Happiness, UPenn).

Flow: Das Geheimnis des Glücks

Wer das Glück will, muss das Chaos im eigenen Kopf beherrschen. Wer frei sein will, muss nur seine Ziele kennen. Das Buch fasst jahrzehntelange Forschung über die positiven Aspekte menschlicher Erfahrungen zusammen: Freude, Kreativität und den Prozess vollständigen Einsseins mit dem Leben, den der Autor FLOW nennt.Wer das Glück will, muss das Chaos im eigenen Kopf beherrschen. Wer frei sein will, muss nur seine Ziele kennen. Das Buch fasst jahrzehntelange Forschung über die positiven Aspekte menschlicher Erfahrungen zusammen: Freude, Kreativität und den Prozess vollständigen Einsseins mit dem Leben, den der Autor FLOW nennt.

http://www.amazon.de/Flow-Geheimnis-Glücks-Mihaly-Csikszentmihalyi/dp/3608957839