It means getting key projects done rather than answering a bunch of emails, making a lot of phone calls, attending a bunch of meetings, and shuffling paperwork all day long. As a writer, that might mean writing one or two important and memorable articles rather than 20 or 50 unimportant ones that people will forget 5 minutes after reading them. The true productivity I mean is the kind where you actually achieve your goals, where you accomplish important and long-lasting things. Not the kind of productivity where you knock off 20 items from your to-do list (although that can be satisfying), where you’re switching between tasks all day long and keep busy all the time. I believe the ability to single-task (as opposed to multi-task) is one of the keys to true productivity. Read Greater Good's Q&A with Jonah Lehrer about fostering creativity in the classroom. Watch this video on how our busy lives can prevent flow.
#Getting into the flow experience how to
Listen to this podcast on how to help children to find flow. Read Jill Suttie's article about why flow is so important to education-and so hard to achieve in schools. Keith Sawyer's essay on how to foster group flow.
#Getting into the flow experience series
This article is part of an ongoing series on the concept of "flow"-a vital ingredient to happiness.Ĭheck out R. It’s a concept I’ve talked a lot about on my blog Zen Habits - being in the moment, focusing completely on a single task, and finding a sense of calm and happiness in your work. One thing I love about Flow is that it takes the very Zen concept of being completely in the moment, and applies it to work tasks. forget about yourself, about others, about the world around you.are completely focused on the task at hand.It’s a concept proposed by positive psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, and these days you’re likely to read about it on blogs and in all kinds of magazines. Put simply, it’s a state of mind you achieve when you’re fully immersed in a task, forgetting about the outside world. From the GGSC to your bookshelf: 30 science-backed tools for well-being.
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