Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

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Try to be surprised by something every day. It could be something you see, hear, or read about. Stop to look at the unus — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Neither parents nor schools are very effective at teaching the young to find pleasure in the right things. Adults, thems — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
After curiosity, this quality of concentrated attention is what creative individuals mention most often as having set th — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Creative people are constantly surprised. They don’t assume that they understand what is happening around them, and they — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
A large majority of our respondents were inspired by a tension in their domain that became obvious when looked at from t — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
All our contemporaries...had some big ideology to live for. Everybody thought he had to either fight in Spain or die for — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
In other words, if Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy showed more than their fair share of pathology it was due less to the require — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
To keep up interest in a subject, a teenager has to enjoy working in it. If the teacher makes the task of learning exces — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention