If your ideal way to spend free time is to do nothing at all, new psychology research shows why this is the easy, but not the best, option for boosting your happiness.
People tend to choose easier activities rather than ones that test their abilities when given the choice.
Why would becoming involved in a more demanding leisure activity benefit your happiness? The answer to this question comes from the idea of “flow,” introduced in the early days of positive psychology by the late Claremont Graduate University's Mikhail Csikszentmihalyi. When you’re using your abilities to their optimum levels, you’ll feel an inner surge of happiness that propels you through a challenging task.
In one experiment conducted in the lab, undergraduates participated in either the high-skill activity of playing the online game “2048” versus the low-skill activity of playing “Plinko” . Participants playing the 2048 game reported being happier and finding more meaning in the activity than did the Plinko players.
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