Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990 - More quotations on: [ Work ] - As cotacoes mais em: [ Trabalho ] It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable. E como as pessoas reagem ao estresse que determina se eles vao lucrar com a desgraca ou ser infeliz. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi , Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990 People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy. Pessoas que aprendem a controlar a experiencia interior sera capaz de determinar a qualidade de suas vidas, que esta tao perto quanto qualquer um de nos pode vir a ser feliz. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi , Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990 People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media. Pessoas sem um sistema simbolico interiorizado pode facilmente tornar-se refens da midia. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi , Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990 Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. O prazer e um componente importante da qualidade de vida, mas por si so nao traz felicidade. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness. Prazer ajuda a manter a ordem, mas por si so nao e possivel criar uma nova ordem na consciencia. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi , Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990 Repression is not the way to virtue. A repressao nao e o caminho da virtude. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Quando as pessoas restringem-se por medo, suas vidas sao por necessidade diminuida. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason. Somente atraves da disciplina escolhida livremente a vida pode ser apreciado e ainda mantidos dentro dos limites da razao. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi , Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990 The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. A solucao e tornar-se progressivamente livre de recompensas sociais e aprender como substitui-los por premios que estao sob sua competencia propria. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own. Isso nao quer dizer que devemos abandonar cada objetivo visado pela sociedade, pelo contrario, isso significa que, para alem ou em vez de as metas para subornar outros usam-nos, nos desenvolvemos um conjunto de nossos proprios. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi , Flow: