Often We Don't Have A Good Notion

Enjoyment, On The Other Hand, Is Not Always Pleasant, And It Can Be Very Stressful At Times. A Mountain Climber, For Example, May Be Close To Freezing, Utterly Exhausted, And In Danger Of Falling Into A Bottomless Crevasse, Yet He Wouldn't Want To Be Anywhere Else. Sipping A Piña Colada Under A Palm Tree At The Edge Of The Turquoise Ocean Is Idyllic, But It Just Doesn't Compare To The Exhilaration He Feels On The Windswept Ridge.

It Is When We Act Freely, For The Sake Of The Action Itself Rather Than For Ulterior Motives, That We Learn To Become More Than What We Were. When We Choose A Goal And Invest Ourselves In It To The Limits Of Concentration, Whatever We Do Will Be Enjoyable. And Once We Have Tasted This Joy, We Will Redouble Our Efforts To Taste It Again. This Is The Way The Self Grows.

In Knowledge-intensive Business Settings, Where Every Manager Has To Oversee Massive Amounts Of Information As Well As People, Facilitating The Use Of Psychic Energy Becomes A Primary Concern.

A Web Site That Promotes Flow Is Like A Gourmet Meal. You Start Off With The Appetizers, Move On To The Salads And Entrees, And Build Toward Dessert. Unfortunately, Most Sites Are Built Like A Cafeteria. You Pick Whatever You Want. That Sounds Good At First, But Soon It Doesn't Matter What You Choose To Do. Everything Is Bland And The Same.

..such Practices And Beliefs, Which Interfere With Happiness, Are Neither Inevitable Nor Necessary; They Evolved By Chance, As A Result Of Random Responses To Accidental Conditions. But Once They Become Part Of The Norms And Habits Of A Culture, People Assume That This Is How Things Must Be; They Come To Believe They Have No Other Options.