If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If a leader demonstrates that his purpose is noble, that the work will enable people to connect with something large - more… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“s come true. The time channeled into such a task is perceived as time subtracted from the total available for our life.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Compared to people living only a few generations ago, we have enormously greater opportunities to have a good time, yet there is… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Entropy is the normal state of consciousness—a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. To avoid this condition, people are naturally eager to fill… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
“Unfortunately, many people find the only challenges they can respond to are violence, gambling, random sex, or drugs. Some of these experiences can be… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if one does… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
“It is usual to explain the motivation of those who enjoy dangerous activities as some sort of pathological need: they are trying to exorcise… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
“Wisdom and integrity cannot be found in any single domain. A broader viewpoint that breaks across disciplinary boundaries is needed, a way of understanding… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone’s reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
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 Copy Share
