The Science of 'Flow States', Explained by a Cognitive Science Researcher

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The Science of 'Flow States', Explained by a Cognitive Science Researcher
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investigates what is happening in our brains when people experience flow. Our goal is to better understand how the experience happens and to make it easier for people to feel flow and its benefits.People often say flow is like"being in the zone". Psychologists Jeanne Nakamura and Csíkszentmihályias something more. When people feel flow, they are in a state of intense concentration. Their thoughts are focused on an experience rather than on themselves.

They lose a sense of time and feel as if there is a merging of their actions and their awareness. That they have control over the situation. That the experience is not physically or mentally taxing. Most importantly, flow is what researchers call an autotelic experience. Autotelic derives from two Greek words: autos and telos . Autotelic experiences are things that are worth doing in and of themselves. Researchers sometimes call these intrinsically rewarding experiences. Flow experiences are intrinsically rewarding.

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