Why I’m a Flow State Maximalist

And You Should Be Too

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One question haunted me from the time I was a kid. How do you become happy? Like most people, I assumed being rich was the answer.

Well, then I learned about people who win the lottery. Most of them end up on drugs, broke, or dead.

Why is that?

Being a snarky teen, I had the answer to that one too. “Lottery winners didn’t earn their wealth. They just got lucky.”

The key to being happy is by earning your riches.

I believed this for a long time. And then I heard the story about Notch.

Notch is the creator of Minecraft. He became a billionaire at a young age. Despite the success, he was depressed within a few months and started spending his time partying.

This was a real puzzle. Completely shattering everything I thought I knew about happiness and how to achieve it.

Happiness isn’t based on money at all. If you’ve got enough money to pay your bills and not worry about it, having more won’t make you happier.

The path to happiness is based on neuroscience and psychology. Not in wealth creation.