I am currently reading a book on what the author calls “the optimal experience”. The book is called „Flow: The Psychology of Happiness” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Basically, using the findings of modern psychology, the book tries to answer a very old question: When do people feel most happy? Even though the book has more than …
This is the first time I write about happiness but I am sure it is not going to be the last. Happiness has been a popular term in our society for hundreds of years and people have always searched for it. We are born with a desire to maximize our pleasure and being in a …
It is said that patience is a virtue and, as with all virtues, when we forget about one of them, life has a way of making us aware and gives us lessons until we remember it. Because I received this kind of lesson lately, I have given it some thought and I think that the …
I have been to Greece for a few days this summer. It is a wonderful country and although I have been there several times, it never ceases to amaze me. I love everything about it: the landscape, the people, the food and I would definitely say it is one of the countries to see before …
You find them everywhere: on the Internet, in books, on TV – almost everywhere you look there is someone telling you how you should live your life in order to achieve a certain goal. But this kind of recipes never worked on me and I don’t think they work on others either. Usually at the …