#notesforfutureself

Discovered this book and love that its written by an engineer, approaching the search for happiness as an end result to solve and then code ourselves towards. What follows are the thoughts, ideas, and things that popped out as real and relevant to me. 

[9.11.18]

State of Joy defined - per Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi...

begin, by making a conscious choice - for happiness, or suffering - as referenced in ‘feeding the wolf’ story in ‘Tomorrowland’...

then practice and practice...

until the brain is primed to default to happy...

and the default focus becomes on what is desired/desirable, instead of undesirable...

from that point, combined with the brain’s focus on one-thing-at-a-time...

to quiet it from a million racing thoughts, flood it with observations...