Happiness and Flow: Fresh Take

  • Discuss happiness and the factors that can increase it
  • Describe the field of positive psychology
  • Give examples of flow

Happiness

This video outlines the psychology of happiness and the factors that predict happiness:
You can view the transcript for “The science of Subjective Well Being, a.k.a Happiness.” here (opens in new window).

Flow

Watch this video to learn about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of flow, as defined in his research and in his book, “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience”:

You can view the transcript for “FLOW BY MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI | ANIMATED BOOK SUMMARY” here (opens in new window).