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When attention is focused, minor aches and pains have no chance to register in consciousness.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.
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Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.
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Goals justify the effort they demand at the outset, but later it is the effort that justifies the goal.
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But anyone who has experienced flow knows that the deep enjoyment it provieds requires an equal degree of disciplined concentration.
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People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.
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Second, to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong from it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going?
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People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.
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To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.
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One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is.
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Happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen.
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Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.
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When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.
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Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.
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Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.
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But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.
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But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.
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Try to be inspired by something every day. Try to inspire at least one person every day.
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Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.
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Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.
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Develop what you lack.
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I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.
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Action by itself is blind, reflection impotent.
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Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.
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A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.
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If music modulates our feelings, so does food; and all the fine cuisines of the world are based on that knowledge. The
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Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.
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Consuming culture is never as rewarding as producing it.
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Creating meaning involves bringing order to the contents of the mind by integrating one's actions into a unified flow experience.
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The self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.
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A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
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Wake up in the morning with a specific goal to look forward to.
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Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one's skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.
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Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there
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It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
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Writing gives the mind a disciplined means of expression.
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To pursue mental operations to any depth, a person has to learn to concentrate attention. Without focus, consciousness is in a state of chaos.
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Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"
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An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.
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We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
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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.
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Shift often from openness to closure.
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We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust.
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A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.
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When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing.
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I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.
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The gods of the Greeks were like helpless children compared to humankind today and the powers we now wield.
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A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.
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There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.
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One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.
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Purpose provides activation energy for living.
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The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind.
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The second reason creativity is so fascinating is that when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
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It's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.
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For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.
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Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.
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The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.
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Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.
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What love is to the heart, appetite is to the stomach. The stomach is the conductor that leads and livens up the great orchestra of our emotions.
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As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.
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Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.
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Take charge of your schedule. Make time for reflection and relaxation.
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To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance.
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Will you ever be anything more than a vessel transmitting the genes and memes of previous generations on to the next?
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It is precisely because the unknowns are so great and dangerous that we require some manner of faith to choose our path and to give us courage.
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The future," wrote C. K. Brightbill, "will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to use his leisure wisely.
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Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.
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You could say that I worked every minute of my life, or you could say with equal justice that I never worked a day.
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Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.
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It's exhilarating to come closer and closer to self-discipline.
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It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.
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The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly," in the words of J. H. Holmes. "It is simply indifferent.
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The concentration is usually possible because the task undertaken has clear goals and provides immediate feedback.
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Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.
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The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments.
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unless a person learns to set goals and to recognize and gauge feedback in such activities, she will not enjoy them.
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Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe
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All too often those who extol most loudly the virtues of selflessness turn out to be motivated by greed and ambition.
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Find a way to express what moves you.
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Thus we might think of consciousness as intentionally ordered information. This
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The roots of the word "compete" are the Latin con petire, which meant "to seek together.
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For better or for worse, at this time science is still the most trustworthy mirror of reality, and we ignore it only at our peril.
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But religions are only temporarily successful attempts to cope with the lack of meaning in life; they are not permanent answers.
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Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.
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The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up ... so the next stage is hard work
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What the social environment told them to want ...
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It might be true that it is "quality time" that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.
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The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.
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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.
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Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.
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If we are so rich, why aren't we happy?
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no worthwhile effort in one's life is either a success or a failure.
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Look at problems from as many viewpoints as possible. Figure out the implications of the problem. Implement the solution.
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One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.
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Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
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The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.
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