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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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...success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.


— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi


#experience

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.


— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi


#average #challenges #fairly #flow #higher

Goals transform a random walk into a chase.


— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi


#goals #into #random #transform #walk

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.


— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi


#hoping #led #payoff #people #sites

Competition is an easy way to get into flow.


— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi


#easy #easy way #flow #get #into

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.


— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi


#contributes #fact #find #happiness #in fact

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.


— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi


#become #creating #creativity #field #kind

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.


— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi


#always #among #breed #children #discipline






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ISBN 0-06-092192-7
Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly (1996). Optimal Experience: Psychological studies of flow in consciousness Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. "
To achieve a flow state a balance must be struck between the challenge of the task and the skill of the performer.

He is noted for his work in the study of happiness and creativity but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic. iː/ MEE-hy CHEEK-sent-mə-HY-ee; Hungarian: Csíkszentmihályi Mihály [ˈtʃiːksɛntmihaːji ˈmihaːj]; born September 29 1934 in Fiume Italy – now Rijeka Croatia) is a Hungarian psychology professor who emigrated to the United States at the age of 22. Martin Seligman former president of the American Psychological Association described Csikszentmihalyi as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology.

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