A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really fr…

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free. ✨ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
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