Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.

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 average and skills are higher than average.

Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question - It provides one of the most exciting models for living.

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

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

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.