In the Life of Meaning course at Acton, one of the questions you are to ask yourself is “what activities so absorb your consciousness so as to cause you to lose all track of time?”  If you can identify those items, you’re halfway to figuring out what you should be doing with your life.  That’s the idea touched on in popular career guides as well.  Part social science, part generalist observation on the modern world and part layman’s philosophical text, Mihaly Csikszentmihaly’s Flow is a spot on primer for understanding all the ways humans attain higher levels of consciousness, with techniques like yoga and meditation only a small sample of the possibilities.  Great stuff to think about as you try to figure out what you should be doing with your life – and it’s probably not simply laying on your back on  a beach with a beer in your hand, either.

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