The More A Person Feels Skilled, The

Through Learning We Grow, Becoming More Than We Were Before, And In That Sense Learning Is Unselfish, Because It Results In The Transformation Of What We Were Before, A Setting Aside Of The Old Self In Favor Of A More Complex One.

Repeatedly We Question The Necessity Of Our Actions And Evaluate Critically The Reasons For Carrying Them Out. But In Flow There Is No Need To Reflect, Because The Action Carries Us Forward As If By Magic.

I Have Devoted 30 Years Of Research To How Creative People Live And Work, To Make More Understandable The Mysterious Process By Which They Come Up With New Ideas And New Things. [...] If I Had To Express In One Word What Makes Their Personalities Different From Others, It's Complexity. They Show Tendencies Of Thought And Action That In Most People Are Segregated. They Contain Contradictory Extremes; Instead Of Being An "individual", Each Of Them Is A "multitude".

It Is When We Act Freely, For The Sake Of The Action Itself Rather Than For Ulterior Motives, That We Learn To Become More Than What We Were.

Sir John Templeton: "my Ethical Principle In The First Place Was: 'where Could I Use My Talents That God Gave Me To Help The Most People?'"