DO YOU LOVE WHAT YOU DO?
The big question: When you get up in the morning, are you happy about getting to work, school, or whatever it is that occupies your day?
Research by Harvard's Howard Gardner, Stanford's William Damon, and Claremont's Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi zeroed in on what'they call "good work," a potent mix of what people are excellent at, what engages them, and their ethics-what they believe matters.18 Those are more likely to be high-absorption callings: people love what they are doing. Full absorption in what we do feels good, and pleasure is the emotional marker for flow.
People are in flow relatively rarely in daily life.19 Sampling people's moods at random reveals that most of the time people are either stressed or bored, with only occasional periods of flow; only about 20 percent of people have flow moments at least once a day. Around 15 percent of people never enter a flow state during a typi cal day.
One key to more flow in life comes when we align what we do with what we enjoy, as is the case with those fortunate folks whose jobs give them great pleasure. High achievers in any field-the lucky ones, anyway-have hit on this combination.
Apart from a career change, there are several doorways to flow. One may open when we tackle a task that challenges our abilities to the maximum-a "just-manageable" demand on our skills. An other entryway can come via doing what we are passionate about; motivation sometimes drives us into flow. But either way the final common pathway is full focus: these are each ways to ratchet up attention. No matter how you get there, a keen focus jump-starts flow.
This optimal brain state for getting work done well is marked by greater neural harmony-a rich, well-timed interconnection among diverse brain areas.20 In this state, ideally, the circuits needed for the task at hand are highly active while those irrelevant are quiescent, with the brain precisely attuned to the demands of the moment. When our brains are in this zone we are more likely to perform at our personal best whatever our pursuit.
DO YOU LOVE WHAT YOU DO?
The big question: When you get up in the morning, are you happy about getting to work, school, or whatever it is that occupies your day?
Research by Harvard's Howard Gardner, Stanford's William Damon, and Claremont's Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi zeroed in on what'they call "good work," a potent mix of what people are excellent at, what engages them, and their ethics-what they believe matters.18 Those are more likely to be high-absorption callings: people love what they are doing. Full absorption in what we do feels good, and pleasure is the emotional marker for flow.
People are in flow relatively rarely in daily life.19 Sampling people's moods at random reveals that most of the time people are either stressed or bored, with only occasional periods of flow; only about 20 percent of people have flow moments at least once a day. Around 15 percent of people never enter a flow state during a typi cal day.
One key to more flow in life comes when we align what we do with what we enjoy, as is the case with those fortunate folks whose jobs give them great pleasure. High achievers in any field-the lucky ones, anyway-have hit on this combination.
Apart from a career change, there are several doorways to flow. One may open when we tackle a task that challenges our abilities to the maximum-a "just-manageable" demand on our skills. An other entryway can come via doing what we are passionate about; motivation sometimes drives us into flow. But either way the final common pathway is full focus: these are each ways to ratchet up attention. No matter how you get there, a keen focus jump-starts flow.
This optimal brain state for getting work done well is marked by greater neural harmony-a rich, well-timed interconnection among diverse brain areas.20 In this state, ideally, the circuits needed for the task at hand are highly active while those irrelevant are quiescent, with the brain precisely attuned to the demands of the moment. When our brains are in this zone we are more likely to perform at our personal best whatever our pursuit.
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