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Forum What tasks or activities put you in a "flow state"?
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What tasks or activities put you in a "flow state"?

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dougw 3 hours ago

A flow state is a state of mind where you are totally focussed on something and nothing else enters your consciousness.

How much of your day is spent in a flow state?

What distractions prevent you from achieving a flow state?

How important to your performance is achieving a flow state?

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  • wolfgangfriedrich
    wolfgangfriedrich 3 hours ago

    Any task puts me into flow state if I can do it long enough uninterrupted. It happens quickest during soldering. The fumes might play a role here. 

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps 3 hours ago

    Soldering.

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  • BigG
    BigG 2 hours ago

    When I was in my twenties and thirties my flow state clicked in after 11pm. Nowadays it's more event driven than time driven. E.g. give me hardware to tinker with, especially with soldering, and that's me zoned in / zoned out. Then LOL. The big distraction must be the Element14 website. Distracting me right now. As I often say to the wife... I'm a legacy single processor model... not very good at multi-tasking. It's 100% at something or NULL result.

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    rsc 1 hour ago

    My days can be defined as turbulent flow most of the time.  Watching a good sci-fi movie can be more immersive.

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