interest in the early years, it is a good idea to
acquire them now, before it is too late to
improve the quality of life. To do so is fairly
easy in principle, but more difficult in
practice. Yet it is sure worth trying. The first
step is to develop the habit of doing whatever
needs to be done with concentrated attention,
with skill rather than inertia. Even the most
routine tasks, like washing dishes, dressing, or
mowing the lawn become more rewarding if we
approach them with the care it would take to
make a work of art. The next step is to
transfer some psychic energy each day from
tasks that we don’t like doing, or from passive
leisure, into something we never did before, or
something we enjoy doing but don’t do often
enough because it seems too much trouble. There
are literally millions of potentially interesting
things in the world to see, to do,
to learn about. But they don’t become actually
interesting until we devote
attention to them.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
