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• Incluso sin éxito, las personas creativas se alegran del trabajo bien hecho. Aprender por sí mismo es gratificante.

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  Life, Motivational, Jobs

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Algunos individuos han desarrollado normas internas tan fuertes que ya no necesitan la opinión de los demás para juzgar si han realizado bien o no una tarea. La capacidad de darse a uno mismo una opinión objetiva es, de hecho, la marca del experto.

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  Fuerte, Empresa, Dar

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). "Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning", p.38, Penguin

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• Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question - It provides one of the most exciting models for living.

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  Good Life, Creativity, Goal

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• Most of us become so rigidly fixed in the ruts carved out by genetic programming and social conditioning that we ignore the options of choosing any other course of action. Living exclusively by genetic and social instructions is fine as long as everything goes well. But the moment bioloical or social goals are frustrated- which in the long run is inevitable - a person must formulate new goals, and create a new flow activity for himself, or else he will always waste his energies in inner turmoil.

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  Running, Long, Goal

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). "Flow: la psicología de la experiencia óptima".

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• It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if one does not appreciate as much of it as possible.

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  Appreciate, Enjoy Life, Essentials

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1993). “The evolving self: a psychology for the third millennium”, Harpercollins

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• Es mejor mirar al sufrimiento directamente a los ojos, reconocer y respetar su presencia, y luego ocuparse lo antes posible de las cosas en las que decidimos centrarnos.

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  Ojo, Enfoque, Sufrimiento

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). "Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life", p.128, Basic Books.

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• It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

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  Joy, Doe, Needs

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). "Flow: la psicología de la experiencia óptima".

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• For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

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  Ideas, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

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  Motivational, Dream, Real

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• A un líder le resultará difícil articular una visión coherente a menos que exprese sus valores fundamentales, su identidad básica... primero hay que embarcarse en el formidable viaje del autodescubrimiento para crear una visión con auténtica alma.

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  Liderazgo, Empresa, Viaje

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• For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

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  Creativity, Our Future, Humans

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Wake up in the morning with a specific goal to look forward to.

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  Morning, Goal, Looks

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• Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

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  Desire, Energy, Vigor

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). "Flow: la psicología de la experiencia óptima".

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• Cada uno de nosotros nace con dos conjuntos de instrucciones contradictorias: una tendencia conservadora, formada por instintos de autoconservación, engrandecimiento personal y ahorro de energía, y una tendencia expansiva, formada por instintos de exploración, de disfrute de la novedad y el riesgo -la curiosidad que conduce a la creatividad pertenece a este conjunto-. Pero mientras que la primera tendencia necesita poco estímulo o apoyo exterior para motivar el comportamiento, la segunda puede marchitarse si no se cultiva.

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  Encouragement, Creativity, Self

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• 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

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  Spiritual, Mind, Comfort

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• Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one’s skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.

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  Fun, Mean, Perfect One

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). "Flow: la psicología de la experiencia óptima".

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• Tome las riendas de su agenda. Dedica tiempo a la reflexión y la relajación.

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  Reflexión, Relajación, Horarios

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• But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

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  Book, Games, Tennis

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). "Flow: la psicología de la experiencia óptima".

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• The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone’s reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way. It is a little like trying to lose weight: everyone knows what it takes, everyone wants to do it, yet it is next to impossible for so many.

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  Trying, Weight, Want

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). "Flow: la psicología de la experiencia óptima".

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• Cuanto más hábil se sienta una persona, más mejorará su estado de ánimo; mientras que cuantos más retos se presenten, más se centrará y concentrará su atención.

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  Concentración, Retos, Atención

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). "Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning", p.58, Penguin

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• It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.

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  Trying, Details, Looks

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life. Therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested.

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  Vida, Significado, Pensamiento

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, p.8, Basic Books

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• Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.

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  Memories, Feelings, Important

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• Sin embargo, una buena vida consiste en algo más que la simple totalidad de experiencias agradables. También debe tener un patrón significativo, una trayectoria de crecimiento que se traduzca en el desarrollo de una complejidad emocional, cognitiva y social cada vez mayor.

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  Significado, Empresa, Buena Vida

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). "Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning", p.20, Penguin

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• We can transform reality to the extent that we influence what happens in consciousness and thus free ourselves from the threats and blandishments of the outside world.

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  Reality, World, Consciousness

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). "Flow: la psicología de la experiencia óptima".

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