losing yourself in your task, subconscious dissolving away, and time, we lose track of it. They are difficult to describe, yet you can see when people have entered a trance-like flow moment. Csikszentmihalyi, (pronounced “chick-sent-me-high”), a psychology professor for almost 50 years, describes flow as an autotelic experience, from the Greek auto (self) and telos (goal or purpose). In these moments the goal is self fulfillment; the activity itself is its own reward. Pink explains that flow moments…
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