A Formula Of Flow
The Science of Self
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How Do Challenge and Skill Work Together to Produce Flow?
Flow is where both the challenge level of a task and your perceived skill at doing it are high. Easy tasks do not lead to flow, we need to be moderately or substantially challenged to enter this state. There's seldom a sense of flow felt when we do work that doesn't require skill. Work that is challenging enough, but not too challenging, doesn't cause us to feel unconfident. And the fear barriers we have explored may well come down to our lack of perceived skills, or the task simply being too hard or inappropriate for us.
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