Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; born 29 September 1934) is a Hungarian psychologist. He created the psychological concept of flow, a highly focused mental state. He is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. He is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth29 September 1934
purpose energy activation
Purpose provides activation energy for living.
thinking hands people
I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.
business self knowing
Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.
listening hearing
It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.
stress people miserable
It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
psychics people use
In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes a primary concern.
people cost matter
The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow - the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.
children discipline resentment
Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.
happiness desire purpose
Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.
ideas differences empowerment
Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.
business cutting soul
...if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul" can be viewed as the surplus energy that can be invested into change and transformation. As such, it is the cutting edge of evolution.
work organization expression
An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.
way consciousness social
Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be effective in the way it was originally intended to be.
goal walks
Goals transform a random walk into a chase.