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We really must keep under control, and pretty strict control, the area within which 'The Man in Whitehall' knows best.

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%-when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.

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Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.

Order, Giving, Attention, Unless, Person

Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk-the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set. But whereas the first tendency requires little encouragement or support from outside to motivate behaviour, the second can wilt if not cultivated.

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Happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen.

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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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Find a way to express what moves you.

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