Time is what one must find in order to Develop interest and curiosity to enjoy life for its own sake. The other equally important resource is the ability to control psychic energy. Instead of waiting for an external stimulus or challenge to grab our attention, we must learn to concentrate it more or less at will.
The only way to take over the ownership of life is by learning to direct psychic energy in line with our own intentions.
…it is not what happens to a person that determines the quality of life, but what a person makes happen.
Other things being equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.
Only if attention is to a certain extent free of personal goals and ambitions doe we have a chance of apprehending reality on its own terms.
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi