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Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: September 29
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Psychiatrist
Psychologist
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..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be they come to believe they have no other options.
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A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.
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Look at problems from as many viewpoints as possible. Figure out the implications of the problem. Implement the solution.
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The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.
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Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.
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If a leader demonstrates that his purpose is noble, that the work will enable people to connect with something large - more permanent than their material existence - people will give the best of themselves to the enterprise
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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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Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.
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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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Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore these limits leads to denial and eventually to failure. To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands
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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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Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.
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Shift often from openness to closure.
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If we are so rich, why aren't we happy?
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One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.
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Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.
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Goals transform a random walk into a chase.
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Wake up in the morning with a specific goal to look forward to.
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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 task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.
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