Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.

A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

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.

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

Goals transform a random walk into a chase.

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

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

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.

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

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.