There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to … - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp. . . I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.

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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.

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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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