After watching the Ted Talk, please answer the following questions. What first motivated Csikszentmihalyi to study factors contributing to a life worth living? What does Csikszentmihalyi say about the...

After watching the Ted Talk, please answer the following questions.

1. What first motivated Csikszentmihalyi to study factors contributing to a life worth living?


2. What does Csikszentmihalyi say about the relationship between material resources (i.e., wealth) and happiness?


3. According to Csikszentmihalyi, how does it feel to be in flow? (Please list at least 3 of the 7 characteristics of the "flow experience.")


4. What does Csikszentmihalyi say about the relationship between the experience of flow and one's levels of challenges and skills? (That is, at what levels are one's challenges and skills when one is in flow?)


5. What contributes to apathy (which Csikszentmihalyi conceptualizes as the opposite of flow) according to Csikszentmihalyi?

Watch the following Ted Talk by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi at the following link:

https://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_flow_the_secret_to_happiness?language=en