Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; born 29 September 1934) is a Hungarian psychologist. He created the psychological concept of flow, a highly focused mental state. He is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. He is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth29 September 1934
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes about
demand return majority
There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.
trying chance talent
Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.
trying
Try to be surprised by something every day.
quality gains needs
To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.
miracle progress answers
Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? The answer seems clear: while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.
reflection relaxation schedules
Take charge of your schedule. Make time for reflection and relaxation.
trying levels glimpse
I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.
creativity light color-white
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude. Like the color white that includes all colors, they tend to bring together the entire range of human possibilities within themselves. Creativity allows for paradox, light, shadow, inconsistency, even chaos -and creative people experience both extremes with equal intensity.
media people symbolic
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.
order important quality
Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.
be-prepared persons prepared
Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person.
good-life creativity goal
Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question - It provides one of the most exciting models for living.
events doe happens
Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.
motivation mean thinking
What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard the quality of immediate experience, and base their motivation instead on the strongly rooted cultural stereotype of what work is supposed to be like. They think of it as an imposition, a constraint, an infringement of their freedom, and therefore something to be avoided as much as possible.