The author further clarifies that different people have different experiences and it’s up to individuals to make their lives worthwhile thus different people find happiness in what they do in different ways. The creative personality (Csikszentmihalyi 1996) is the person who takes challenges that the environment presents and comes up with the discoveries and the innovations. However, the individual takes up the challenge that the type of culture he or she has been predisposed to and brings out his or her creative mind and which goes through the final stage of recognition by other people or the audience of innovation and the discoveries that an individual makes. The next step involves an individual who is ready to take the challenges presented to him or her by the society and bring out the symbolic domain of culture. To Mihaly, creative ideas go through the three steps bottlenecks of culture that an individual is predisposed and therefore shaping our experiences and frustrations and in turn intriguing our creativity. Creativity is depicted as a process and not some phenomenon that happens all of a sudden. In this chapter we learn that creativity lies in the experiences that we find most enjoyable taking part in and these activities later on become very rewarding in our lives. After the creative process, the owner takes us to a deep insight of searching for creativity in the chapter “where is creativity” this chapter tries to analyze creativity of an individual. He however attributes people’s unhappiness to the frustrations that are there in the world and which makes people to be creative (Csikszentmihalyi 1996). In this chapter, the author defines what comprises happiness and why people are unhappy with themselves. The author ascertains that the universe conditions people to grow and be creative for them to become happy. The creative process is the first chapter in the book and where the author describes how creativity is achieved.

To begin with, the author himself has created meaning in his life by producing a literary piece of work worthy to capture the attention of the reader. It has taken him a great deal of work to come up with the data and hence the book itself can be said to reflect the characteristics of the author. However, one thing that is outstanding in the book is how Mihaly has great efforts into his work which can be evidenced by the case studies he has conducted. Mihaly, emphasis on the book is how these experiences produce people who the society regards as successful.

We all have experiences that we regard to as demanding and which are very rewarding if we keep persisting in doing them (Csikszentmihalyi 1996).

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