Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Each of us has a picture, however vague, of what we would like to accomplish before we die.

At the individual level anomie corresponds to anxiety, while alienation corresponds to boredom

that people who can enjoy themselves in a variety of situations have the ability to screen out stimulation and to focus only on what they decide is relevant for the moment

whereas most others would succumb to the ordeal

It is not easy to be a maverick and to keep to the narrow path of self-chosen excellence in a nonexisting domain.

And so I have always realized that I would have to invent my own job.