Contrary to what we usually believe, the best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times — they are the moments when we are completely absorbed.

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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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