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The purpose of the discussion is to look at factors that promote well-being but require that you deliberately cultivate these factors for them to become ingrained in your life.

Step 1: Based on the information in this chapter, why do you think more people do not experience persistent well-being?

Step 2: What do you think is the need for the experiences of leisure, flow, mindfulness, savoring, and peak performance?

Step 3: What impact do you think these experiences have on why they increase well-being?

Step 4: How are these experiences different than just “laying around doing nothing?”

Step 5: What would have to change in our culture that would promote the experiences of leisure that promotes well-being, the experience of flow, mindfulness, and peak performances?

Step 6: What is one major change that would take place in your lifestyle if you were to deliberately seek to incorporate the following: Leisure that promotes well-being, the experience of flow, mindfulness, and peak performances?