ABSTRACT
The Well-Being Systems model affords not only new and deeper understandings of the nature of human choice-making but of all human behavior as well. The key premise of Well-Being Systems model is that all human choices and actions are designed to satisfy underlying self-related needs, the satisfaction of which support feelings of well-being, which evolved as a way for living things to maximize fitness and insure survival. Over many years, and through hundreds of interviews and surveys with individuals from many countries representing individuals engaged in a wide range of activities, Csikszentmihalyi and his associates discovered an amazingly consistent pattern in the ways people described experiences of peak personal satisfaction and happiness. According to anthropologist Clifford Geertz, meaning is the mind's way of making sense of the world, the translation of existence into conceptual form. As a whole, social science investigations of self-perception and choice have focused on a fairly narrow subset of human experience.
