Have you ever had the experience of being so focused on what you are doing that time just flows past without you even noticing? That is a flow state.

The psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, first described flow states, and they are a powerful tool for effective working and high levels of personal productivity.

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Program 1: Managing Yourself
Course 6: Personal Productivity
Section 1: Effective Working

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LESSON NOTES
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is an academic psychologist. He specializes in Positive Psychology. His book, 'Flow, the Psychology of Happiness' (https://geni.us/sKXY), describes the flow state. More helpfully, it also tells us how we can enter flow states. This means we can use them to create the conditions for maximum personal productivity.

A Flow State is the optimum experience for a human being. Flow is a state of happiness.

Csikszentmihalyi says:
‘In theory, any job could be changed so as to make it more enjoyable by following the prescriptions of the flow model’

You can transform your work into work that can trigger a flow state by setting up three conditions:

1. Balance skill vs challenge
2. Clear goals
3. Immediate feedback


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1. Lok for opportunities to transform mundane, dull, even unpleasant tasks in your life into flow state activities Take the first one out for a test-drive. (2 MC CPD Points)

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For this video, the book to read is: 'Flow, the Psychology of Happiness'
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