Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes - Page 5

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• Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"

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  Ethical Principles, People, Use

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.78, Penguin

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

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  Shortcuts, Dangerous

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, p.3, Basic Books

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• If we are so rich, why aren't we happy?

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  Prosperity, Rich, Ifs

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2014). “Applications of Flow in Human Development and Education: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi”, p.127, Springer

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• If I had to express in one word what makes their [creative individuals'] personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual," each of them is a "multitude."

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  People, Creative, Different

  "The Creative Personality" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

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  Sake, Action, Motive

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

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• People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

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  Media, People, Symbolic

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

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• 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.

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  Faith, Business, Ideas

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.118, Penguin

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• Shift often from openness to closure.

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  Finishing, Closure, Openness

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• People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the mind undemandingly.

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  Stress, Technology, People

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• It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were. When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable. And once we have tasted this joy, we will redouble our efforts to taste it again. This is the way the self grows.

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  Self, Goal, Effort

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2013). “Flow: The Psychology of Happiness”, p.42, Random House

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• Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.

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  Order, Important, Quality

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2013). “Flow: The Psychology of Happiness”, p.46, Random House

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• Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

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  Creativity, Study, Distraction

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• Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

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  Mind, Information, Capacity

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

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• But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of consciousness. It is also necessary to have an overall context of goals for the events of everyday life to make senseTo create harmony in whatever one does is the last task that the flow theory presents to whose who wish to attain optimal experience; it is a task that involves transforming the entirety of life into a single flow activity, with unified goals that provide constant purpose.

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  Goal, Everyday, Wish

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• Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person.

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  Be Prepared, Prepared, Persons

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

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• ...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"

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  Leadership, Business, Max

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.129, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Average, Skills, Challenges

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• A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to reflect complexity.

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  Self, Psychics, Two

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• The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work

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  Teaching, Hard Work, Learning

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• 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

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  Reality, Everyday, Excellence

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, p.5, Basic Books

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• Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.

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  Fashion, Mastery, Gains

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

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• There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

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  Majority, Demand, Return

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.21, Penguin

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• Perform with elan, brilliance and dash - at concert pitch.

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  Concerts, Brilliance

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• It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.

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  Thinking, Skills, Feels

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

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• One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.

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  Fleeting, Way, Life Is

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