Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Doing

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is Hungarian American psychologist. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: 26 quotes 5 likes

“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

Personality

“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

Feeling

“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)

People