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The Core Components

The Core Components

Ten core components that indicate the Flow state:

  • Clear goals
  • Concentration
  • A loss of self consciousness
  • Distorted sense of time
  • Direct and immediate feedback
  • Balance between ability level and challenge
  • A sense of personal control over the situation
  • Intrinsically rewarding so action is effortless
  • Lack of awareness of bodily needs
  • Absorption, narrowing of awareness down to the activity.

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Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

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