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8 quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The native form of this personal name is Csíkszentmihályi Mihály. This article uses the Western name order. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (/ˈmiːhaɪ ˌtʃiːksɛntməˈhaɪ.iː/ MEE-hy CHEEK-sent-mə-HY-ee; Hungarian: Csíkszentmihályi Mihály Hungarian: [ˈtʃiːksɛntmihaːji ˈmihaːj] ( listen); born 29 September 1934) is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. He is the former head of the department of...
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Goals transform a random walk into a chase.

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A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and build toward dessert.... →

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People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

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Competition is an easy way to get into flow.

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If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than... →

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And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical... →

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And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources... →

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Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

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