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Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.


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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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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.



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



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

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



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

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



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

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



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

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



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

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





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The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.



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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.



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