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The eight conditions for flow

The eight conditions for flow

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The eight conditions for flow

- Have you ever had an experience that felt so beautiful that everything just flowed. We might find ourselves in flow states by chance. Maybe you're planning a dinner party and everything from the preparing the meal to the arrival of the guests flows in a beautiful sequence. Or you might decide to take a road trip without a real plan, and everything falls in place. You find the perfect spot on the beach to have a picnic and then maybe you have a conversation with a stranger that leads to another discovery. In these moments, you might feel that you're flowing with life. You can get there by chance, but very often, to get into a flow experience, the circumstances must be designed. There are many examples of how you can experience flow, whether that's making music, climbing, dancing, playing games, but what makes these activities conducive to flow is that they were designed to facilitate optimal experience. So what are the…

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