It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if one does not appreciate as much of it as possible.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiIf 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.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiIt is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiFor original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi