“It is important to do as much as we can to prevent nuclear war, to abolish social injustice, to eradicate hunger and disease,” wrote psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. “But it is prudent not to expect that efforts to change external conditions will immediately improve the quality of our lives. As J.S. Mill wrote, ‘No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes places in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.’
“How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depend directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experience.”
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