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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes: Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.
         

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.


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