Awareness Part 3, “Flow”:

Tim W Coats
3 min readAug 9, 2020
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I often find myself watching other people.

One of the things I’ve noticed is people who have hobbies and outside interests seem happier than those who don’t. I wondered why, so I decided to look into it.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, an early pioneer in the study of happiness, provides a possible explanation in his 1990 book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. He writes:

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Tim W Coats

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