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98: Habits for Flow

Time and Attention

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Finding and Staying in Flow

The last step in finding and staying in flow is all about continually bringing your attention back. Our mind has been shown to wander for 47% of the day that Daniel Gilbert so wandering mind unhappy minds that he found through random sampling throughout the day, it wanders about half the time. Be kind to your mind. It's human to wander and bring it back to what you originally intended to accomplish unless the thing that you've stumbled into is more productive and meaningful or whatever other currencies you're trying to optimize for. We are far more likely to have flow if we accommodate these rhythms.

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