The pursuit of happiness

What follows is luxury from the point of view of the Buddhist monk. Because with self-efficacy extended by learning, with an orientation towards success and learning that refers to minimum requirements, we laid the foundation of motivation.

To gain access to this quality of motivation, however, we must cultivate a certain inner attitude. This attitude includes mindfulness, appreciation of the little things and successes, and resulting gratitude. With this attitude, we continuously accompany our actions. And if we approach the matter in this way, then we move inspired and committed from task to task.

Research seems to ignore this possibility of changing our attitude and a culture of mindfulness. The researchers work with subjects who participate in the studies with a blunted attitude sometimes. That’s why these studies come to a definition of a challenge that goes beyond what Stephen Guise with his mini-habits and I understand by an appropriate challenge.

In his concept of self-efficacy, Bandura has linked a certain level of challenge with the tasks. In his research, he related the experience of one’s own effectiveness to tasks that were demanding. Similar conclusions were reached by another fellow who followed almost identical questions in his research as Bandura.

Have you ever heard of the term “flow”?

If so, then you may also know that this is a concept developed by the psychologist Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced Tshick Sent Mihai) during a research project.

Csikszentmihalyi must have been quite an ambitious scientist at the time of the project because he had no less a goal than to find out when, where and how people are happy.