Flow State · The closest you get, in waking life, to disappearing, and being more yourself than ever, at the same time.

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 workers, and grandmothers cooking. The conditions are known. The triggers are known. So is the dark side most modern wri