Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes About Stress

Quotes about: Stress

• Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close to freezing, utterly exhausted, and in danger of falling into a bottomless crevasse, yet he wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Sipping a piña colada under a palm tree at the edge of the turquoise ocean is idyllic, but it just doesn't compare to the exhilaration he feels on the windswept ridge.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Business, Stress, Ocean

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.34, Penguin

• It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Stress, People, Miserable

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

• People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the mind undemandingly.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Stress, Technology, People

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