The Highest good is Happiness.
The researcher and professor of psychology Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi writes in his essay “ Happiness Revisited” about how people seek happiness and desire to be happy. However, the happiness that everyone is so strongly seeking and aiming for most of the life cannot be bought with money, nor is it something that just happens. As Csikszentmihalyi writes, “ It is not something that money can buy or power command” (608). In the other words, Csikszentmihalyi is expressing the main idea of the essay, which is that happiness is something that each individual should work on and it will not be handed to them. Through his essay Csikszentmihalyi projects that happy people are not the ones that seek happiness in material things, but the deepest meaning of …show more content…
Furthermore, not only pleasant experiences lead to happiness, even the hard times are helping people to strive for happiness. As Csikszentmihalyi writes, “ Even people who survived concentration camps or who have lived through near-fatal physical dangers, often recall that in the midst of their ordeal they experienced extraordinarily reach epiphanies in response to such simple events as hearing the song of a bird in a forest”(610). Some people find simple pleasure of happiness in buying their favorite ice cream, but hours or days later that experience will be forgotten and hardly re-called as happiness. With that said, Csikzentmihalyi points out that the happiest moments of our lives are the ones that we have been driven towards until we reached the boundaries, and then accomplished the goals that we have set before us. As Csikszentmihalyi writes, “ The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen”(610). He ends by coming to conclusion that
The researcher and professor of psychology Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi writes in his essay “ Happiness Revisited” about how people seek happiness and desire to be happy. However, the happiness that everyone is so strongly seeking and aiming for most of the life cannot be bought with money, nor is it something that just happens. As Csikszentmihalyi writes, “ It is not something that money can buy or power command” (608). In the other words, Csikszentmihalyi is expressing the main idea of the essay, which is that happiness is something that each individual should work on and it will not be handed to them. Through his essay Csikszentmihalyi projects that happy people are not the ones that seek happiness in material things, but the deepest meaning of …show more content…
Furthermore, not only pleasant experiences lead to happiness, even the hard times are helping people to strive for happiness. As Csikszentmihalyi writes, “ Even people who survived concentration camps or who have lived through near-fatal physical dangers, often recall that in the midst of their ordeal they experienced extraordinarily reach epiphanies in response to such simple events as hearing the song of a bird in a forest”(610). Some people find simple pleasure of happiness in buying their favorite ice cream, but hours or days later that experience will be forgotten and hardly re-called as happiness. With that said, Csikzentmihalyi points out that the happiest moments of our lives are the ones that we have been driven towards until we reached the boundaries, and then accomplished the goals that we have set before us. As Csikszentmihalyi writes, “ The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen”(610). He ends by coming to conclusion that