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Old 11-24-2007, 04:15 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jeff3 View Post
If I could start over today I would definitely leave 'struggle' and 'hard work' out of the equation. Give me 'ease and comfort' any day.
In Csikzentmihalyi's formulation, there is no "struggle" and no "hard work". There is only "play". His research into happy people reveals numerous examples of people who experience happiness under what seem to be unlikely conditions. The reason is that they have somehow managed to mentally reframe their conditions into some kind of "game" - and the challenge is to play.
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