"Twenty-five centuries ago, Plato wrote that the most important task for a society was to teach the young to find pleasure in the right objects. The problem is that it is easier to find pleasure in things that are easier, in activities like sex and violence that are already programmed into our genes. It is much more difficult to learn to enjoy doing things that were discovered recently in our evolution."
"It is in this sense that creative individuals live exemplary lives. They show how joyful and interesting complex symbolic activity is. They have struggled through marshes of ignorance, deserts of disinterest, and with the help of parents and a few visionary teachers they have found themselves on the other side of the known. They have become pioneers of culture, models for what men and women of the future will be—if there is to be a future at all."
CREATIVITY by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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