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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes: One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.
         

One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.


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For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.



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



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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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