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Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 4 quotes · Business, Ifs, Happiness

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Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning Quotes

“...if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul" can be viewed as the surplus energy that can be invested into change and transformation. As such, it is the cutting edge of evolution.”

“To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.”