Challenging Yourself Quotes

“You either fight boredom, or you become it.”
― Stewart Stafford

“In order to achieve flow, that thing has to be CHALLENGING enough to occupy your whole brain. All of your capacities. So you're fully immersed in that activity. [...]

A lot of people are doing things that they don't enjoy in the moment and they're not finding it challenging or fulfilling in a good way. It might be so challenging or so hard that they give up, or they don't know what they're doing, or they're just bored [because it's not challenging enough]. Those are all going to be unfulfilling achievement activities. [...]

In order to get that intrinsic enjoyment of the activity it has to have, built into it, baked into the activity... it has to be challenging enough. [...]

Growing itself is enjoyable [because it's challenging].”
― David Tian Ph.D

“It is always worth it to rise to a challenge as happiness is often the result.”
― Martha Begley Schade, Flappy: The Pigeon Who Overcame Bullying. From Zero To Hero!