"Indeed, Csikszentmihalyi was investigating optimal human experience with this work. Everyone must want to know how to reach optimal human experience. That's rainbows-all-day-long territory. What is it, then? Flow is a state that arises from activities that use our core skillset but also challenge us, leading to increased motivation and immersion within what we're doing. The result is that we are more content, partially because performance is improved."
"Flow is an all-natural performance-enhancing drug. Utilizing flow, like meditation, can almost put our brains on steroids (as discussed in "Flow as ADD Self-Help" below). Our brain has incredible neurochemical capacities, of course. Flow allows us to make use of the calm, proactive "drugs" that arise in our body with forward motion. If we do struggle to stay on track mentally (to focus), training our mind with flow can be powerful."
Flow is a mental state produced by activities that match core skills with sufficient challenge, increasing motivation, immersion, and performance. Flow generates endogenous neurochemical states comparable to meditation and can act as a natural performance-enhancing mechanism. Training the mind to enter flow can strengthen focus, especially for people who experience attention difficulties, because being out of flow feels jerky, disjointed, and uncomfortable. Using forward-directed movement harnesses calm, proactive neurochemistry. Relearning embodied skills, such as approaching tree climbing like rock climbing, can induce flow and may operationally restructure brain function.
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