Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiOften we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiI think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiA self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to reflect complexity.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi