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05/13/2025

To Get "in the Flow," Do Work You Enjoy

An 'optimal state of consciousness’ may be the secret to happiness

It can happen when doing ‘just about anything’ – experts share how to get "to get in the zone," and what can pull you out.

What is the secret to happiness? In a 2004 Ted Talk, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi boldly claimed to have the answer: Flow.

Flow is the experience of being completely absorbed in a particular task. Sometimes, we call it being "in the zone." Csikszentmihalyi described it in his Ted Talk as an "effortless, spontaneous feeling" and an "ecstatic state."

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