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Flow (psychology)


 

With flow the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi names the feeling of complete and energized focus in an activity, with a high level of enjoyment and fulfillment.

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Psychologist - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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As Mihaly sees it, the components of a flow producing activity are:

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  • We are up to the activity.
  • We are able to concentrate on the activity.
  • The activity has clear goals.
  • The activity has direct feedback.
  • We feel that we control the activity.
  • Our worries and concerns disappear.
  • Our subjective experience of time is altered.
  • Not all of these components need to be present together for flow to be experienced.

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    Csikszentmihalyi suggested several ways in which a group could work together so that each individual member could achieve flow. The characteristics of such a group include:

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  • Creative spatial arrangements: Chairs, pin walls, charts, however no tables, therefore primarily work in standing and moving.
  • Playground design : Charts for information inputs, flow graphs, project summary, craziness (here also craziness has a place), safe place (here all may say what is otherwise only thought), result wall, open topics
  • Parallel, organized working
  • Target group focus
  • Advancement of existing one (prototyping)
  • Efficiency increase by visualization
  • Difference of the participants is a chance
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