Bored with Your Job? The Recipe for Enjoying Your Work | Scott H Young

Being in flow means focusing your complete attention on the task in front of you. It is an underrated aspect of our happiness at work.
Flow requires simplicity: if a task is too hard, it will become frustrating too easy and you'll be bored.

Work tasks are rarely chosen by you, so they rarely have optimal difficulty. To make them more likely to produce flow:

1. Slow down on your work and let go of the expectations you have related to your tasks.
2. Complex tasks can seem very overwhelming and frustrating. So break them up into more manageable sub-tasks.
3. Lower your standards temporarily to get the faucet running. Perfectionism will not help you in this case.