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Benefits of flow
Flow is an innately positive experience; it is known to "produce
intense feelings of enjoyment and its improvement of
performance results in satisfying achievement.
Flow has a strong, documented correlation with performance
enhancement. Researchers have found that achieving a flow
state is positively correlated with optimal performance in the
fields of artistic and scientific creativity (Perry, 1999; Sawyer,
1992),
teaching
(Csíkszentmihályi,
1996),
learning
(Csíkszentmihályi et al., 1993), and sports (Jackson, Thomas,
Marsh, & Smethurst, 2002; Stein, Kimiecik, Daniels, & Jackson,
1995)
Flow also has a strong correlation with the further development
of skills and personal growth. When one is in a flow state, he or
she is working to master the activity at hand. To maintain that
flow state, one must seek increasingly greater challenges.
Attempting these new, difficult challenges stretches one's skills.
One emerges from such a flow experience with a bit of personal
growth and great "feelings of competence and efficacy".
Further, flow is positively correlated with a higher subsequent
motivation to perform and to perform well.
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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