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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times. The best moments usually occur if a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

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“Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen rather than something that happens to us.”

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

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“Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work it is dissipated.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

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