“Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.”
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“WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY? Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle came to the unsurprising conclusion that what a person wants above all is to be happy. In 1961, the US psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote: ‘While happiness itself is sought for its own sake, every other goal – health, beauty, money or power – is valued only because we expect that it will make us happy.’ Csikszentmihalyi looked for a term that described the state of feeling happy. He called it ‘flow’. But when are we ‘in the flow’? After interviewing over a thousand people about what made them happy, he found that all the responses had five things in common. Happiness, or ‘flow’, occurs when we are: • intensely focused on an activity • of our own choosing, that is • neither under-challenging (boreout) nor over-challenging (burnout), that has • a clear objective, and that receives • immediate feedback. Csikszentmihalyi discovered that people who are ‘in the flow’ not only feel a profound sense of satisfaction, they also lose track of time and forget themselves completely because they are so immersed in what they are doing.”
― The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking
― The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking
“The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
― Autobiography of a Yogi
“You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
― Autobiography of a Yogi
“Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.”
― Romeo and Juliet
― Romeo and Juliet
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