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How to stop languishing and start finding flow | TED Talks Daily

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Mastery and Mindfulness Are the Keys to Flow

Psychologists find that at work, the strongest factor in daily motivation and joy is a sense of progress. But mastery does not have to be a big accomplishment. It can be small winds - like playing scrabble or baking sourdogh bread. If we want to find floe, we need better boundaries. I don't think there's anything magical about tuesday, thursday, friday, before noon.

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