Human Skills
Flow Mindset
Colloquially known as being in the zone, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.
““Flow is more than an optimal state of consciousness—one where we feel our best and perform our best—it also appears to be the only practical answer to the question: What is the meaning of life? Flow is what makes life worth living.””
– Stephen Kotler
Must See Videos
Author: Steven Kotler
How to use ‘Flow tate’ to do the impossible
To achieve peak performance, we must learn to get our biology to work for us rather than against us.
Length: 6:28 Minutes.
Author: Steven Kotler
How to get into the Flow State
How flow can create peak performers, and ignite your highest potential in your work and passions.
Length: 37:41 Minutes
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow
This a classic throwback to Mihaly’s 2004 TED talk.
Length: 18:55 Minutes
Interesting Articles
Masterclass
All About Flow States: 3 Benefits of Achieving Flow State
Attaining a state of flow is a skill that ordinary people can practice and improve.
The Flow State in 2022 the New Digital Age
A summary of Mihaly’s ‘Psychological Flow’.
Forbes
Accelerate your performance with Flow
A “state of flow” is defined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi as the state of peak performance.
IO Book Club
About the Book
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Title: Flow
The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.
About the Book
Author: Daniel Pink
Title: Drive
The essential requirement: Any extrinsic reward should be unexpected and offered only after the task is complete.
About the Book
Author: Steven Kotler
Title: The Rise of Superman
An exploration of how extreme athletes break the limits of ultimate human performance and what we can learn from their mastery of the state of consciousness known as “flow”.
About the Book
Author: Steven Kotler
Title: Stealing Fire
Transformational leaders not only regulated their own nervous systems better than most; they also regulated other people’s..
It is not just about productivity.
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The transition to the digital future of work is not by acquiring technological skills, or trying to retain those jobs that will inevitably become automated, but by building on those critical, emotional skills that make us human to cultivate a balanced and productive work-life and environment. As we recognize the qualities that humans hold over machines, we also need to recognize and develop the conditions for those desirable attributes to thrive.