Darwin taught us that we all come into the world with a bag of resources that will allow us to survive one way or another. As Abraham Maslow represents, survival forms the basis and self-realization is at the top of the hierarchical pyramid, at the top of the classification tree of our needs.
Our roots are what keeps us alive, but that doesn’t mean the leaves or fruits are less important. Abraham Maslow was very interested in the qualities of people who seem to function in the most complete, healthy, fitted and adapted way. he, each person has the potential to realize himself, motivated by intrinsic desires to approach the type of person he can be.
- Eduardo Punset explains that.
- Unlike other animals.
- Our life cycle allows us to establish two different and related objectives: the maintenance and care of the organism and the realization of happiness (the latter favored by the increase in life expectancy in our species).
In 1963, Abraham Maslow came to believe that car directors share certain characteristics:
Maslow used the term?Advanced experience? To refer to moments of intense self-realization. During these experiences, people feel connected to the elements of their environment. Psychologist Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi (1975, 1988) developed the concept of Flow (flowing in Portuguese).
This term refers to optimal experiences, where perception is sharper and there is a waste of time, feelings are often admiration, wonder and even ecstasy, this can happen passively, listening to a song or contemplating a work of art, although they usually occur when the person is fully immersed in an activity in which he is producing.
It should be noted that a fluid experience consists of some main elements: clear and achievable objectives, a high degree of concentration and concentration, direct and immediate feedback, a balance between skill level and challenge, and intrinsically rewarding motivation.
“The main objective is the intimate self-realization of being, which should not be overlooked by secondary goals. The best service you can provide to others is self-release?-Bouddha Buddha-
The truth is that it is possible to achieve a state of happiness and self-realization through a conscious process Does this happen when our attention is focused on something?Which then makes us feel good.
It should be noted that Csikszentmihalyi used the word flow to describe the mood people feel when they seem to maintain a high degree of concentration effortlessly, even with free time, a concept that alludes to the feeling and emotion of these actions or movements. rarely motivated by external factors at first and never at the end.
But these experiences do not have to be pleasant, as the author says, when we sink we are not happy, but we cannot be happy without these flow experiences, remember that happiness is intimately linked to our internal states, the flow implies that Our attention is completely focused on the task. Once completed, we can focus on our condition, look back and consider what happened.
“In a sense, those who move? They are not aware of the experience at that time; However, when they think, they feel fully alive, fully realized and involved in the ultimate experience” Gardner, 1993?
The sequence of the flow concept would look like this
Csikszentmihalyi’s philosophy conceives the verb living as a harmonious fusion between making, thinking and feeling, setting goals and achieving them without feeling that there is a sacrifice in the middle allows us not only to reach the top, self-realization, but also to enter and Leave our interior for the search for happiness.
“If you want to understand the word happiness, you must understand it as a reward and not as an end. “Antoine de Saint-Exupéry?
Punset, E. (2005). The journey to happiness. [ebook] Barcelona
López Palenzuela, D. (s. f. ) Personality Psychology.