Happiness is a state of mind which is characterized by providing the personality of who
owns it a more positive perspective of what he or she has around. In order to understand
more easily what happiness is, Martin Seligman (Pisituve psuchology’s father), defined
three types of happiness:
The pleasant life. It consist in filling one life with every kind of pleasure and learn
several ways to enjoy them all better. However, this is the most superficial level.
The second level is the good life, referred to what atistotles called eudaimonia,
or what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi recently called "flow state". I order to achieve this
formula, the individual should know the virtues and talents owned, as well as
rebuild life to implement them as soon as possible. Then, happiness would consist
in being completely absorbed in an activity for his or her own pleasure and
enjoyment while time is being consumed and actions, thoughts and movements
succeed non-stop.
The third and last level is the meaningful life. It would consist in using your
virtues and talents in a service or cause which you feel it is bigger than you, so you
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can give meaning to your life. In this level, the workers should focus on achieving
the organization objectives.