Flow Is Hard To Achieve

Optimal Experience Is That Rare Occasion When We Feel A Sense Of Exhilaration, A Deep Sense Of Enjoyment That Is Long Cherished And That Becomes A Landmark In Memory For What Life Should Be Like.

Find A Way To Express What Moves You.

The Solution Is To Gradually Become Free Of Societal Rewards And Learn How To Substitute For Them Rewards That Are Under One's Own Powers. This Is Not To Say That We Should Abandon Every Goal Endorsed By Society; Rather, It Means That, In Addition To Or Instead Of The Goals Others Use To Bribe Us With, We Develop A Set Of Our Own.

Problems Are Solved Only When We Devote A Great Deal Of Attention To Them And In A Creative Way...to Have A Good Life, It Is Not Enough To Remove What Is Wrong With It. We Also Need A Positive Goal, Otherwise Why Keep Going? Creativity Is One Answer To That Question - It Provides One Of The Most Exciting Models For Living.

A Self That Is Only Differentiated - Not Integrated - May Attain Great Individual Accomplishments, But Risks Being Mired In Self-centered Egotism. By The Same Token, A Person Who Self Is Based Exclusively On Integration Will Be Well Connected And Secure, But Lack Autonomous Individuality. Only When A Person Invests Equal Amounts Of Psychic Energy In These Two Processes And Avoids Both Selfishness And Conformity Is The Self Likely To Reflect Complexity.