Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

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.

Repeatedly we question the necessity of our actions and evaluate critically the reasons for carrying them out. But in flow there is no need to reflect, because the action carries us forward as if by magic.

Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.

It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it’s presence, and then get busy as soon as possible focusing on things we choose to focus on.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.