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Experience and external circumstances
ConceptThe quality of an experience concerns subjective involvement as well as external conditions.
Explanation or usage
Resources and circumstances matter, while attention, goals and interpretation also shape experience. This distinction does not mean hardship is imaginary or entirely under personal control. Claims about experience should be kept separate from claims about every cause of well-being.
Common misunderstandings
Improving one’s attention makes every external hardship irrelevant.
In Flow
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A useful lens for discussing Flow is to distinguish the quality of lived experience from external conditions, without treating hardship as imaginary or claiming that circumstances never matter.