How to flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ('chick sent me high')

There are clear goals every step of the way.

There is immediate feedback to one's actions.

There is a balance between challenges and skills.

Action and awareness are merged.

Distractions are excluded from consciousness.

There is no worry of failure.

Self-consciousness disappears.

The sense of time is distorted.

The activity becomes autotelic - it becomes an end in itself.