Tuesday, May 4, 2010

happiness

a person with a hard-to-pronounce name (cheeks-ahn-me-hi):
http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html...is a nice "flow" redux: figure 1 ties nicely to "abnormal" psych...anxiety/depression/etcetera)
(he talks about hearing Jung talk when he was a teenager)
at 4 minutes-in he shows a graph that shows the general non-correlation of money & happiness.

and another "interesting" talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory.html
"experiencing self" vs. "memory self" (20 minute video)

many fine resources here:
http://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/

a flow article by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
http://www.psychologytoday.com/print/25074

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