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Flow - Living at the peak of your abilities – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Mihaly’s expertise and mastery of this field is evident from the book. This book is in the form of Q&A. Mihaly has done years of deep research on the topic of optimal experience – characteristics of flow and how to get into flow. A lot of methods he recommends come from practical experience – planning how you will do a task even if it is as mundane as washing vessels, cleaning your workspace or decluttering your environment, paying attention to what you are doing and making deeper use of your senses while doing it.  The book could have been condensed further as a lot of points are repetitive. We have all experienced the joy of getting into flow at one time or the other in our lives. These have been instances where we have thoroughly enjoyed what we were doing and were so completely absorbed that we have lost track of time and ourselves. It is definitely worth it to read the book to see how we can recreate more such moments for ourselves at work and outside work, moments spent on doing things that have all the elements leading to flow and to utter relaxation and happiness.

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