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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (/ˈmiːhaɪ ˈtʃiːksɛntˈmiːhaɪ/, Hungarian: Csíkszentmihályi Mihály, pronounced [ˈt͡ʃiːksɛntmihaːji ˈmihaːj] ( listen); born 29 September 1934) is a Hungarian psychologist. He recognised and named the psychological concept of flow, a highly focused mental state.[page needed] He is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. He is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College.

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As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

Long, Feel Good, Easy, Exploit, Feels

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

Denial, Everyday, Excellence, Ignore, Reality

Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.

Writing, Each Day, Sparks, Interest, Strikes, Follow

Shift often from openness to closure.

Finishing, Closure, Openness, Shift

But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

Actually, Dangerous, Further, Shortcuts

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

Miserable, Misfortune, People, Stress

The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries to protect its doctrines and institution instead of nurturing the evolution of consciousness. If one is not careful to distinguish the genuine insights of a religion from its irrelevant accretions, one can go through life following an inappropriate moral compass.

Become, Business, Faith, Genuine, Ideas, Inappropriate

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

Joy, Needs, Increase, Enjoyable, Becomes

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

Creativity, Human, Humans, Our Future, Tied

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

Consciousness, Control, Determines, Quality, Quality Of Life

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.

Contributes, Facts, Happiness, Increase, Material, Unhappiness

In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes a primary concern.

Amounts, Energy, Oversee, People, Psychic, Psychics

Take charge of your schedule. Make time for reflection and relaxation.

Reflection, Relaxation, Schedules, Make

Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one’s skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.

Fun, Mean, Perfect One, Enjoyable, Becomes, Ceases

Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk-the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set. But whereas the first tendency requires little encouragement or support from outside to motivate behaviour, the second can wilt if not cultivated.

Encouragement, Creativity, Two, Belongs, Saving, Enjoying

Purpose provides activation energy for living.

Activation, Energy, Living, Provides, Purpose

Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.

Becomes, Experience, Long, Memories, Memory, Rare Occasion

There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.

Change, Conditions, Goal, Improve, Match, Two

The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own.

Goal, Mean, Set, Societal, Society, Use

Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing our best. Feeling fulfilled when we live up to our potentialities is what motivates differentiation and leads to evolution.

Happiness, Business, Believe, Make, Feeling

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