EP 45: Finding Flow in Chaos

Last month saw the passing of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Flow – the seminal work that describes the human state of happiness, optimal experience and high performance. The book (and his research) has subsequently influenced everything from office design, to how to train soldiers, website and video game design amongst everything else. In this episode, I commemorate the author by synthesizing the essence of his work (in less than 15 minutes!) and describing how the Flow state is an absolute panacea for the 3 symptoms of our present COVID “hangover”. Insights include:Why finding Flow is at the very heart of LeadershipWhat is the Flow state?Why enterprise became interested and what it discoveredThe conditions you need to know as a Leader to create FlowHow Flow is a panacea for the 3 symptoms of our pandemic hangoverFlow’s naughty neighbours : Boredom & Anxiety Related Episodes Episode 34 : Finding Meaning in ChaosEpisode 26 : The Leadership ContributionEpisode 12 - 14 : Motivation in ChaosEpisode 5 : Clarity in ChaosSupport the show