Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes About Overcoming

Quotes about: Overcoming

• 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”

• Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Struggle, Teaching, Learning

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

• To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Goal, Overcoming, Performances

• Only direct control of experience, the ability to derive moment-by-moment enjoyment from everything we do, can overcome the obstacles to fulfillment.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Overcoming, Obstacles, Moments

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience”, p.16, Harper Collins

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