The four phases of the flow cycle: struggle, release, flow, recovery. Skip any one and you cannot get the next.

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Flow State

Flow is not productivity. It is not focus. It is the optimal state of human experience — total absorption in an activity that matches your skill to a challenge worth caring about. Csikszentmihalyi spent thirty years documenting it across surgeons, climbers, chess players, factory…

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