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
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
Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“What is the meaning of life?” turns out to be astonishingly simple. The meaning of life is meaning: whatever it is, wherever… — 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
“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
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
“One of the most ironic paradoxes of our time is this great availability of leisure that somehow fails to be translated into… — 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
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
“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 Image
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 Image
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
