The document explores three types of happiness: pleasure, flow, and meaning and purpose. It highlights that pleasure is fleeting, flow occurs during peak engagement, and meaning comes from applying one's strengths towards a greater cause. True happiness stems from understanding and utilizing one's strengths in service to something larger than oneself.

1. Happiness
A quick overview of 3 routes to a
satisfying life
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2. Three types of ‘happiness’
1. Event: Pleasure
1. Positive emotions
2. Can be shortcuts that do not lead to true happiness
2. Flow: Engagement
1. Being one with the task/activity
2. Using strengths in more areas of life
3. Meaning and purpose
1. Using strengths in service of something bigger than self
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3. 3 Types of Happiness
Meaning & Purpose
Happiness
Flow
Pleasure
Sustained time 3

4. Pleasure
• This is short-lived, fleeting, and tied to events
• “Chasing the next high”
• Hardest to maintain
• As the stimulus (event, etc.) goes away,
happiness drops
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5. Flow
• “Being in the zone”
• Occurs when challenge meets skill
• Balance of challenge and progress
• Peak performance meets peak engagement
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6. Meaning and Purpose
• Identifying, understanding, and applying
your strengths
• Applying one’s strengths in service
• Being a part of something bigger
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7. Engagement-Happiness
• Doing a survey is not doing engagement
– Only a part of the process
• “No one ever got a pig fat by weighing it”
• Not another box on to-do list, should be hard
wired in org’s DNA
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8. Routes most used
• Easily plan and schedule parties
• Easy to misconceive smiles
• Providing lines of sight between job and
organization creates meaning and purpose,
difficult to implement
Less effective More effective
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9. Email:
Josh@internalconsistency.com
Phone: 1-888-481-4741
Twitter: @I_consistency
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