Flow, Episode 7 – Work Flow

Enough of all this daydreaming and walking, it's time to do some work. But does this mean Flow is put on pause while you surrender yourself to the tyranny of oppression? Of course not, the Flow has only just be-go! This week cultural relativism is washed away by the currents of Csikszentmihalyi's value judgments, as we look at the case study of welder Joe and how he found Flow not only in the factory, but also at home with his extraordinary rainbow fountains. We look at enjoying work in the 2020s, with Dan dismissing James' comparisons of best and worst jobs. And we ask, who is to blame for dissatisfaction in the workplace? Who do you think... But don't worry, we'll guide you safely to the indubitably superior function of the autotelic worker. So stop faffing about and press Play; there's work to be done.Find all episodes of Private Practice Podcast and send us your thoughts at www.privatepracticepodcast.net (as long as you're not simultaneously welding) – I'm sure we will enjoy the Flow experience of thinking about your concise, considered and extraordinarily witty contributions.'Flow' by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi claims to be 'The classic work on how to achieve happiness', although we think it's more like 'how to create states of purposeful complexity', which make for enjoyment, which can be interpreted as happiness. But obviously no one is going to write that on the cover of a book. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi spent over two decades looking scientifically at situations in which people from a variety of social and biological backgrounds report feelings of deep enjoyment. His studies revealed that what makes experience genuinely satisfying is a state of ordered concentration and complexity, which eliminates the psychic entropy that causes anxiety, and he called this 'Flow'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.