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Hungarian-born Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced “chicks-sent-mehigh”) resolved to find an answer. He earned a PhD from the University of Chicago, then spent the next twenty-five years interviewing people around the world from all walks of life. He asked each of them to recall the happiest moments of their life, and to describe what created those moments. He discovered an amazing sameness in their answers. “The best moments,” he writes in his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, “usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary, highly focused effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.” “Such experiences are not necessarily pleasant at the time they occur,” Csikszentmihalyi explains. “The swimmer's muscles might have ached during his most memorable race, his lungs might have felt like exploding, and he might have been dizzy with fatigue – yet these could have been the best moments of his life.”
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