It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
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.
Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.
When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.
The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.
Participate as fully as possibly in the world around you.
It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%-when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.
An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.
Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.
If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.
If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.
To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.
One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is.
Look at problems from as many viewpoints as possible. Figure out the implications of the problem. Implement the solution.
A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and build toward dessert. Unfortunately, most sites are built like a cafeteria. You pick whatever you want. That sounds good at first, but soon it doesn't matter what you choose to do. Everything is bland and the same.
A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.
The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own.
Our jobs determine to a large extent what our lives are like. Is what you do for a living making you ill? Does it keep you from becoming a more fully realized person? Do you feel ashamed of what you have to do at work? All too often, the answer to such questions is yes. Yet it does not have to be like that. Work can be one of the most joyful, most fulfilling aspects of life. Whether it will be or not depends on the actions we collectively take.
Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there
A thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for - rewards often grafted onto genetically programmed desires.A person who cannot override genetic instructions when necessary is always vulnerable..The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.
Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.
Shift often from openness to closure.
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.
If I had to express in one word what makes their [creative individuals'] personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual," each of them is a "multitude."
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