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

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


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Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.



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A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.



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Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.



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And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.



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If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.



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The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.



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Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.



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Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.



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Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.





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