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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognised and named the psychological concept of flow, a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity. 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. September 1934
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Famous Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

“Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Source: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Source: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“… 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.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Source: 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

“The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Source: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes about life

“The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Source: Flow: The Psychology of Happiness

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

“It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Source: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it’s presence, and then get busy as soon as possible focusing on things we choose to focus on.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Flow: a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience is so enjoyable that people will continue to do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Psychology of optimal experience, Harper https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224927532_Flow_The_Psychology_of_Optimal_ExperienceFlow (1990)

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