Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Enjoyment

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

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: 26 quotes 5 likes

“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

Nature , Effort , Personality

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

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Appearance , Personality

“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

Life , Learning

“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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