Time and Attention

98: Habits for Flow

Mar 14, 2023

29:13

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How to be a better writer

01:22

How to Find Flow in Your Life

01:09

Flow Is Particularly Important When There's Creativity

01:41

Getting Into Flow and Not Judging Your Work

01:39

Introduction

2min

What Is Flow?

2min

How to Find Flow With Writing?

2min

Flow Is Particularly Important When There's Creativity

2min

How to Find Flow in a Situation

2min

Getting Into Flow and Not Judging Your Work

2min

How to Manage Your Attention Throughout the Day

2min

The 10 Habits for Flow

2min

How to Find a State of Flow in Your Work

2min

10.

How to Eliminate Distractions in Your Workplace

2min

11.

The Most Difficult to Do

2min

12.

Is Your Routine Different Everyday?

2min

13.

Focus or Nothing?

3min

14.

Finding and Staying in Flow

3min

On this episode, we chat about how to get into a state of flow, where we’re totally immersed in what we’re doing. Topics covered include:

What a “flow state” is;
The characteristics of a flow state;
Shortcuts to help us get into a state of flow;
How flow helps us perform better with creative tasks;
When a flow state isn’t helpful;
The “flow channel”;
Why we shouldn’t always evaluate how we’re doing as we work;
The steps for focusing on something, and how these can help us enter a flow state.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Book: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Book: How to Calm Your Mind
Book: Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
Book: On Writing
Article: The flow channel

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