The Flow Cycle
The first phase of the flow cycle
Struggle
Flow helps improve this imagination-utilizing quality
Creativity
Flow can create such an obsession with an activity that it could be classified as this
Addiction
A state of being fully immersed, energized and present with the current activity.
Flow
A person in a flow state will lose track of this
time
The second phase of the flow cycle
Release
Flow helps reduce this negative state of mind
Stress
under extremely poor conditions
The more commonly used name for a flow state
"The Zone"
There needs to be a balance between these two factors for flow to be achieved
skill and difficulty
The third phase of the flow cycle
Flow
The main beneficial emotion increased by flow
Happiness
People may be accrediting flow to high performance actually caused by this
Good environment/circumstances
Physical needs/physical feelings
These are necessary for achieving a flow state, and for achieving almost anything in life
Clear goals
The fourth phase of the flow cycle
Recovery
Flow increases intrinsic ________
Motivation
The name of the study commonly cited in support of flow which is not based on data.
McKinsey study
This neurostransmitter is circulated in increased amounts during flow
Dopamine
A person in a flow state will lose this sense(not time)
self-consciousness
The most productive phase of the flow cycle, where there is a feeling of full presence.
Flow/the third phase
Flow can accelerate this process
Learning
Many studies that demonstrate flow fail to recognize the differences between these two types of relationship
The Hungarian psychologist who discovered flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
autotelic experience