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Ultimate Happiness

If you want to be happy (and who doesn’t?), it certainly helps to know what happiness is. Happiness is scientifically defined within the context of Flow Theory. The definitive book on Flow Theory is Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmilhalyi. “Optimal experience” could also be characterized as maximum happiness. Ultimate Happiness is maximum happiness (or optimal experience) over time.

Flow Theory describes a mental state during performance of an action in which a person performing the action is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement and enjoyment in the activity.  

There are three primary conditions of the flow experience:

1) clear goals – this provides the necessary structure and direction to the activity;

2) clear and immediate feedback – this helps the person negotiate any challenging demands and allows them to make adjustments to their performance to maintain a flow state

3) a balance between challenge and skill – this balance provides a feeling of confidence and control over one’s ability to succeed.

The Golden Rule

The challenge/skill balance or CS balance is the golden rule of flow.  The chart below illustrates the CS balance.  It is a chart of the challenge level of a certain action versus the skill level available to meet the challenge. 

Notice that an activity that has high challenge and low skill leads to a state of anxiety or being stressed out because the action cannot be performed.  Anxiety has a negative effect on performance because it can cause frustration with an activity that will eventually cause a person to give up and quit the activity.

An activity with low challenge and high skill leads to a state of boredom because the activity is too easily performed.  Boredom has a negative effect on performance because it can cause a person to lose interest and eventually quit the activity. 

In both states – anxiety and boredom – the key performance problem is lost attention and focus on the activity.

By contrast, the CS balance or “flow channel” has a positive effect on performance because a person is succeeding at an activity and increasing skill over time, so that higher levels of performance can be achieved over time.  In a Flow state, attention and focus on the activity are maximized.

Maximize Your Happiness Over Time

Being an Ultimate Person facilitates the Flow experience, over time.  Flow is built into the skill of maximum problem solving skill over time, and thereby facilitates maximum happiness over time.  Maximum happiness over time, or Ultimate Happiness, is one of the primary benefits to living The Ultimate Life.

Learn how to live the Ultimate Life, according to science, at UltimatePerson.com. The best place to start is to take the free online course entitled Ultimate Person Course. Or you can just download the free e-textbook entitled The Ultimate Person and read all about it.

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Carmen Tripodi
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The World Of The Future

Wouldn’t it be nice to know the world of the future?

Look no further. The world of the future has now been accurately defined. The world of the future is The Ultimate World. The Ultimate World is scientifically defined as a “world-wide group of ultimate people working together as a team to maximize their group problem solving skill over time.”

Maximum Problem Solving Skill Over Time Is Mandatory

Maximum problem solving skill over time will be necessary to solve the world’s problems, including the most serious problems such as war, violence, poverty, racism and sexism. It will also be necessary to solve the human survival problems such as pandemics, global warming (both natural and artificial), and human conflict.

It can be accurately predicted that the Ultimate World is the world of the future. This is because safety problems always take priority in human affairs. Human survival problems are the ultimate safety problems, and as such, they will always take priority. The Coronavirus pandemic is an excellent example of how a human survival problem takes priority in world events. And maximum problem solving skill over time (i.e. the Ultimate World) will be necessary to solve the human survival problems.

The Ultimate World is taught in detail in The Ultimate World Course. The Ultimate World Course, along with The Ultimate Person Course, are the ultimate courses because they provide the mandatory knowledge and skills for both individuals and groups.

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Carmen Tripodi
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The Person Of The Future

Wouldn’t it be nice to know what people of the future will be doing each day?

Look no further. The person of the future has been accurately defined. The person of the future is the Ultimate Person. This is because the Ultimate Person will be trained in the ultimate skill of maximum problem solving skill over time, and this skill is a mandatory skill. It is mandatory skill because of the complex problems that need to be solved, such as war, violence, racism and sexism. And because of the human survival problems such as pandemics and global warming (both natural and artificial).

By learning this mandatory skill, you will be prepared for the future, and you can apply your knowledge of the future to your advantage in the present. You can avoid wasted time and energy on short term fads and focus on the things that matter. The future defines the things that will stand the test of time, and thereby defines the things that matter in human affairs.

Learn how to be an Ultimate Person, and get certified as a true Ultimate Person backed by science, by taking the free Ultimate Person Course.

And don’t forget to share your knowledge, awesome achievements, solutions to world problems, and desire to help others. Check out Ultimate Sharing.

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Carmen Tripodi
Author and Instructor
UltimatePerson.com

UltimatePerson.com – the only website on earth where you get the ultimate information on the ultimate topics