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Biography: Mihaly Csíkszentmihalyi is best known for his work in psychology, par... more Biography: Mihaly Csíkszentmihalyi is best known for his work in psychology, particularly for introducing the concept of "flow," a state of deep immersion and optimal experience in activities. Born in 1934 in Hungary, he emigrated to the U.S. where he became a prominent psychologist, authoring influential books like "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience." less

"Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is knowledge we have lost in information?"

Tags: Philosophy, Wisdom, Knowledge, Reflection, Understanding

"Inner conflict is a result of an unsolved encounter between conflicting ideas, impulses, or motives"

Tags: Personal growth, Self-discovery, Psychology, Inner conflict, Emotional struggle

"The way to happiness lies neither in protection from difficulty nor in escape from reality"

Tags: Personal growth, Resilience, Happiness, Inner peace, Acceptance

"We can only have a coherent conception of reality—our conscious experience of it, that is—if we pay attention to its contents one by one, moment by moment"

Tags: Philosophy, Mindfulness, Perception, Reality, Awareness

"Complexity requires investing energy to go beyond entropy, the universal law of inertia and decay, and beyond the social programming that keeps us on a narrow track"

Tags: Growth, Complexity, Investment, Energy, Decay

"The meaning of life is meaning: whatever it is, wherever it comes from, a unified purpose is what gives meaning to life"

Tags: Personal growth, Self-discovery, Purpose, Existentialism, Life philosophy

"Competition is an easy way to experience flow, but it is a cheap trick "

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"One of the major reasons why a flow experience involves such deep enjoyment is that it is self-contained"

Tags: Mindfulness, Happiness, Psychology, Experience, Well-being

"The quality of life does not depend on happiness alone but also on what one does to be happy"

Tags: Self-improvement, Happiness, Purpose, Well-being, Contentment

"The best way a human being can spend a lifetime is to develop something that is universally recognized as worthwhile "

Tags: Personal growth, Self-improvement, Achievement, Life purpose, Human potential

"A good life is one that is characterized by complete absorption in what one does "

Tags: Mindfulness, Happiness, Passion, Purpose, Dedication

"We are the masters of our own destiny "

Tags: Motivation, Inspiration, Personal growth, Empowerment, Freedom

"Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished "

Tags: Personal growth, Freedom, Fear, Virtue, Living fully

"Each person allocates his or her limited attention either by focusing it intentionally like a beam of energy or by diffusing it in desultory random movements "

Tags: Mindfulness, Focus, Productivity, Attention, Energy

"It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the skills we think we have "

Tags: Self-awareness, Mindset, Personal development, Mental health, Confidence