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Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

“When adversity threatens to paralyze us, we need to reassert control by finding a new direction in which to invest psychic energy, a direction that lies outside the reach of external forces. When every aspiration is frustrated, a person still must seek a meaningful goal around which to organize the self. Then, even though that person is objectively a slave, subjectively he is free.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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