If you’re lucky, you’ve been there.

With practice, you can get there many times a day.

Where? That place called Flow… where you are totally focused, everything else falls away, you perform at your best, and work feels effortless.

What is Flow?

Flow was first explained by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly and a team of researchers at the University of Chicago. They asked people to describe a time when they performed at their peak. Regardless of profession – sports, chess, surgery – everyone’s description was the flow state. It’s not just experts who can experience this mindset. Everyone works best when they’re in what some people call the zone.

Smart leaders who help people get into flow and stay there know they will work at their peak abilities. The more time an organization’s employees spend there, the better they will perform. This is especially true for anyone whose work requires creativity.

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