9 Things You’ll Need to Achieve an Ideal ‘Flow State’

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is perhaps best known for saying that a state of consciousness that makes an experience genuinely satisfying can be called a “flow state.”

I often see people complaining about not having focus and not being able to concentrate on one thing. While some say they are pros at multi-tasking, it is extremely difficult for a person to focus on one thing at a time, and their minds want to think about more than one thing.

Multitasking is a valuable skill in itself but it can also eat up productivity by scattering one’s focus. In fact, recent studies show that multitasking is literally killing our brains.

Ideally, in a flow state you would concentrate attention on completion of a single task instead of multiple ones. It takes several important steps to achieve this state, but should one attain it, it’s well worth the effort.

1. Do What You Love:

The most important thing in the process of achieving a ‘Flow State’ is to love what you do.

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