When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi More Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi More Quotes From Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 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. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi glimpse levels trying 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. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi increase unhappiness facts Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi mastery gains fashion People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi symbolic media people Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi be-prepared prepared persons If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi skills challenges average The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind...It seems that every time a pressing danger is avoided a new and more sophisticated threat appears on the horizon...Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi spiritual comfort mind And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi creating creativity years If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions, of the stability of the community, and of the health of the environment, chances are that the quality of our lives will be worse than it is now. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi greed community jobs But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi shortcuts dangerous Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi painful sometimes life ..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi practice believe people 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. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi empowerment differences ideas Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making machines whose only reason for existing is to satisfy escalating expectation for immediate gain. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi business responsibility jobs In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi focus organization goal Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi progress growth doe 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. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi psychics energy people When we are involved in (creativity), we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life, you know that what you need to do is possible to do, even though difficult, and sense of time disappears. You forget yourself. You feel part of something larger. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi top-news
