The FLOW Secret: How to Make Challenging Tasks Fun
Channel: Tiago Forte
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)
[0:00] there is a holy grail of productivity
[0:02] sweet spot where you can effortlessly
[0:04] tackle even the most challenging tasks
[0:07] while also having fun it's called flow
[0:10] flow is not a woo woo mystical concept
[0:13] it's hard science and has been studied
[0:15] for years starting with miali chicken
[0:18] miihi a Hungarian American psychologist
[0:21] who wrote The Definitive book on the
[0:23] subject called flow flow is a measurable
[0:25] mental state in which your prefrontal
[0:27] cortex up here which is a part of your
[0:29] brain that incl includes your inner
[0:30] critic actually shuts down you
[0:32] experience a loss of self-consciousness
[0:35] which is another way of saying that you
[0:37] lose your sense of time and place
[0:39] because you're totally immersed in the
[0:41] moment you enter a calm relaxed state of
[0:44] deep concentration in which the actions
[0:47] you're taking feel inherently rewarding
[0:49] and it's also been shown to greatly
[0:51] improve decision- making and performance
[0:53] on a wide variety of skills now how can
[0:56] we create more flow States in our
[0:58] day-to-day work on purpose here are four
[1:02] ways to d