Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes About Anxiety

Quotes about: Anxiety

• To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Independent, Punishment, Anxiety

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

• Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Positivity, Boredom, Anxiety

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

• A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Boredom, Anxiety, Typical

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