Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task … - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

Allocate, Business, Done, Energy, Hands, Work

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Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.

Order, Giving, Attention, Unless, Person

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.

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Happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen.

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For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

Ideas, Intellectual, Intelligence, Consciousness, Percolate, Make

Find a way to express what moves you.

Moving, Expression, Way, Moves, Express

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