Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author Name: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Book Genre: Business, Nonfiction, Personal Development, Psychology, Self Help
- ISBN # 9780060920432
- Date of Publication: 1990–
- PDF File Size: 2.2 MB
- EPUB File Size: 488 KB
The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe
was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind. It is almost
immeasurably huge, and most of it is hostilely empty and cold. It is the
setting for great violence, as when occasionally a star explodes, turning to
ashes everything within billions of miles.
The rare planet whose gravity
field would not crush our bones is probably swimming in lethal gases. Even
planet Earth, which can be so idyllic and picturesque, is not to be taken for
granted. To survive on it men and women have had to struggle for millions
of years against ice, fire, floods, wild animals, and invisible microorganisms
that appear out of nowhere to snuff us out.
It seems that every time a pressing danger is avoided, a new and more
sophisticated threat appears on the horizon. No sooner do we invent a new
substance than its by-products start poisoning the environment. Throughout
history, weapons that were designed to provide security have turned around
and threatened to destroy their makers.
As some diseases are curbed, new
ones become virulent; and if, for a while, mortality is reduced, then
overpopulation starts to haunt us. The four grim horsemen of the
Apocalypse are never very far away. The earth may be our only home, but it
is a home full of booby traps waiting to go off at any moment.
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