In his 1990 book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi laid out the ideas that would give birth to the idea of the "flow state." In the years since, the flow state has long been sought after by all manner of people—athletes, artists, performers—who are hoping to increase their productivity and happiness by losing themselves in an activity or getting "in the zone." Today, you'll learn the eight factors that Csikszentmihalyi found most reliably led to optimal experiences and how you can better organize the activities in your life such that you might lose yourself in flow.

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088 - Flow: The 8 Factors of Optimal Experience

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088 - Flow: The 8 Factors of Optimal Experience