From the course: Agile Software Development: Creating an Agile Culture
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Enable flow
From the course: Agile Software Development: Creating an Agile Culture
Enable flow
- Have you ever had an experience where you were so engrossed in your work that it felt like you were just becoming one with the work? Time flies and you just feel incredibly engaged and you've got this amazing sense of accomplishment to the point where you almost find yourself in a trance, and it just feels like pure joy. I've felt it, and chances are you have too, and that experience is what researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes as flow. Now flow is a very powerful state because it creates immense amounts of both satisfaction and also productivity, but here's the thing. Getting to that state sometimes feels a little elusive. How you motivate yourself and others has a huge impact on how easy it is to get to that flow state. As Csikszentmihalyi notes in his research flow is best attained when individuals are motivated from within rather than from external sources. So in his book "Drive: The Surprising Truth About…
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