382 Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It is impossible for partners not to grow bored unless they work to discover new challenges in each other’s company, and learn appropriate skills for enriching the relationship. Initially.

It is the full involvement of flow, rather than happiness, that makes for excellence in life. When we are in flow, we are not happy, because to experience happiness we must focus on our inner states, and that would take away attention from the task at hand.

One of the simplest ways to decrease the frequency of negative thoughts is by selectively moderating expectations.

If music modulates our feelings, so does food; and all the fine cuisines of the world are based on that knowledge. The.

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.

Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore these limits leads to denial and eventually to failure. To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands.

The mark of a person who is in control of consciousness is the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious to distractions, to concentrate for as long as it takes to achieve a goal, and not longer. And the person who can do this usually enjoys the normal course of everyday life.

If we are so rich, why aren’t we happy?

In an integrated family, each person’s goals matter to all others. In.