Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we alloc…

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done. ✨ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning, p.63, Penguin
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Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done. ✨ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning, p.63, Penguin

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