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@ 29. Sep. 2008. – 07:15:44 pm
In Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's book 'FINDING FLOW' he says that people are more likely to be happy if they are:
Healthy; Extrovert; having strong self-esteem; in a stable marriage and have religious faith.
Oh well, perhaps my strong Spiritual Faith will keep a smile on my face. And.....I can be quite extrovert after half a bottle of red wine = maybe I should drink more.
Ozzzy 
*Csikszentmihalyi is pronounced chick-SENT-me high
lindapitura
I made a mistake about the title of the book - I've amended my post. Sorry. 'Flow' is the book that he wrote nearly twenty years ago, I enjoyed that but as you say, it's a bit "professorial", reading a bit like a psychology text book.
This newer book is called 'Finding Flow' and the list I wrote about up above is not a formula for happiness as such (though it could be I suppose, I feel an experiment coming on...), what Mihaly is saying is that in surveys, people who are very happy have these qualities present in their lives and people who have very little happiness have the opposite; are chronically sick;introverted; have low self-esteem;are without a partner; are atheist.
The new book is not so "professorial", being written in the more relaxed style of a popular self-help book, there is some of his old style present in the writing because that is who he is = a professor and what he professes makes for an excellent read. 
You lovely and one day you will meet someone worthy of loving you. Hugs
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He's pretty good though a bit "professorial" about things, no? I have his book on Creativity.
I'm not sure about this formula. The extrovert part - why? More instantaneous ego gratification? Healthy - ok, I can see that. Married - what if your spouse is a psycho that drives you crazy and your extroversion and strong self-esteem causes you to argue all the time? Religious faith - maybe.
I don't know about that formula. Not sure at all.