Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes about Energy

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Purpose provides activation energy for living.

Purpose provides activation energy for living.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Energy, Purpose, Activation

"Creating Purpose" by Jen Grisanti, www.huffingtonpost.com. Janaury 12, 2011.

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.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Desire, Energy, Vigor

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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, People, Energy

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.63, Penguin