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898/929Modern Truth <strong>in</strong> Ancient Wisdom (New York:Basic Books, 2005), 34.54. “be<strong>com</strong>e <strong>in</strong>dependent <strong>of</strong> the social environment”:Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, Flow:<strong>The</strong> Psychology <strong>of</strong> Optimal Experience (NewYork: Harper Perennial, 1990), 16.55. “Psychological theories usually assume”:Mihalyi Csikszentmilhalyi, <strong>The</strong> Evolv<strong>in</strong>g Self:A Psychology for the Third Millennium (NewYork: Harper Perennial, 1994), xii.56. you probably f<strong>in</strong>d that your energy isboundless: <strong>The</strong> same goes for happ<strong>in</strong>ess.Research suggests that buzz and other positiveemotions seem to <strong>com</strong>e a little easierto extroverts, and that extroverts as a groupare happier. But when psychologists <strong>com</strong>parehappy extroverts with happy <strong>in</strong>troverts,they f<strong>in</strong>d that the two groups sharemany <strong>of</strong> the same characteristics—self-esteem;freedom from anxiety; satisfactionwith their life work—and that those

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