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Flow Experiences

15 January, 2016 - 09:08
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  • The psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, has carried out fascinating research on what he terms "flow experiences." Mike Martin in Meaningful Work (2000) U.K.: Oxford,: 24, summarizes these in the following bullets:
  • clear goals as one proceeds
  • immediate feedback about progress
  • a balance between challenges and our skills to respond to them
  • immersion of awareness in the activity without disruptive distractions
  • lack of worry about failure
  • loss of anxious self-consciousness
  • time distortions (either time flying or timeslowing pleasurably)
  • the activity becomes autotelic: an end in itself, enjoyed as such