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Optimal experience in the flow framework
ConceptIn Csikszentmihalyi’s framework, an optimal experience involves rewarding absorption in an activity.
Explanation or usage
The experience concerns how an activity is lived, not just its external result. It can involve sustained effort and concentration. The term does not mean that the activity is morally good or that absorption guarantees a happy life.
Common misunderstandings
Optimal experience must be effortless and morally desirable in every case.
In Flow
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Consider rewarding involvement as one framework for understanding experience, not as a universal formula for happiness.