What it is like to be in flow?
When people feel flow, they are in a state of intense concentration.
- Their thoughts are focused on an experience rather than on themselves.
- They lose a sense of time and feel as if there is a merging of their actions and their awareness. That they have control over the situation. That the experience is not physically or mentally taxing.
- Flow is what researchers call an autotelic experience. Autotelic experiences are things that are worth doing in and of themselves. Researchers sometimes call these intrinsically rewarding experiences.
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