If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you f…

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them. ✨ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life, p.128, Basic Books
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