It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system …

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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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. ✨ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning, p.24, Penguin
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