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…when we set out to make our own happiness, we’re focused on activity that generates intrinsic rewards – the positive emotions, personal strengths, and social connections that we build…
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45 |
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If we let our desire for more and more extrinsic rewards monopolize our time and attention, it prevent sus from engaging in autotelic activities that would actually increase our happiness.
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46 |
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Whenever we feel awe in the form of chills, goose bumps, or choking up serves as a kind of emotional radar for detecting meaningful activity.
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99 |
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The more we start to monitor and self-report through daily activities… the more we’ll be able to chart our progress, set goals, accept challenges, and support each other in our real lives in the way we do in our best games.
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143 |
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Community games have important benefits to our real lives. They may lead us to new interests – public spaces or public instructions we discover we care about more than we’d thought…
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Thinking about death is one of the most highly recommended happiness activities, but it’s also one of the most difficult to convince ourselves to undertake.
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198 |
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Just as activity does not equal progress, so change does not equal innovation.
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054 |
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If we’re not careful, the acts of feeling and thinking deeply will increasingly become an activity of the few.
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The process of finding ideas and growing them, as painful and frustrating as it is, as rarely completed as it is, as demoralizing and depressing as it can be, is still the most advanced activity the human mind can engage in.
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…the broader meaning of play is an activity that can withstand… modern life; it is an activity that lifts a person out of the mundane into the most meaningful and productive realm.
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