FLOW QQC

Quote: "Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy."

Question: Why do they say that happiness is a condition?

Comment: The way that they put how happiness is a condition it's like their saying that happiness is something that must be worked at so hard. To gain true happiness you don't have to work hard for it, it usually just comes it isn't prepared. And what do they mean by inner experiences is as close as to happiness we can come?

Daniel Pink on mastery (from the book Drive)

Quote: "A little kid's life bursts with autotelic experiences. Children careen from one flow moment to another, animate by a sense of joy, equipped with a mindset of possibility, and working with the dedication of a West Point cadet."

Question: So if children have a incredible mindset,they feel pain in their lives, and they have an imagination all their own creating their own journey's they achieve mastery?

Comment: If all it takes to achieve mastery is to pursue mastery,overcome pain, and have a journey then kids have already achieved mastery.