Structures of everyday life -- Content of experience -- How we feel when doing different things -- Paradox of work -- Risks and opportunities of leisure -- Relationships and the quality of life -- Changing the patterns of life -- Autotelic personality -- Love of fate

"What makes a good life? Is it money? An important job? Leisure time? Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi believes our obsessive focus on such measures has led us astray. Work fills our days with anxiety and pressure, so that during our free time, we tend to live in boredom, absorbed by our screens."--Back cover

1280L