Quotes About Mihaly

In his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi refers to flow as the time when you become lost in your actions, whether climbing a mountain peak, painting or playing soccer.

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience BY MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create new order in consciousness.

This cultural hubris, or overweening presumption about what we are entitled to from a universe that is basically insensitive to human needs, generally leads to trouble.

Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one's skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun. But

The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

THE AUTOTELIC SELF: A SUMMARY

We tried to answer these questions with the Experience Sampling Method (ESM), the procedure I developed at the University of Chicago to study the quality of experience.

Suffering is not bad: It helps you very much. Do you know a novel about happiness? Or a film about happy people? We are a perverse race, only suffering interests us.