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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Age: 89
Born: 1934
Born: September 29
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I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.
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The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.
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If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.
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How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.
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And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.
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The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.
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When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.
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Try to be inspired by something every day. Try to inspire at least one person every day.
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But shortcuts are dangerous we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.
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It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.
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To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance.
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Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.
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If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.
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Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.
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Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.
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Participate as fully as possibly in the world around you.
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To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.
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Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.
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For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish, moment by moment.
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