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== Concise description of theory ==
== Concise description of theory ==
a mental state of complete absorption with the activity at hand, a feeling of total engagement and immersion, a harmonious blend of high level of challenge, focused attention and high level of skill
a mental state of complete absorption with the activity at hand, a feeling of total engagement and immersion, a harmonious blend of high level of challenge, focused attention and high level of skill.
Studying the creative process in the 1960’s (Getzels and Csikszentmihalyi 1976<ref>Getzels, J. W., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1976). The creative vision.</ref>), Csikszentmihalyi was struck by a fact that when work on a painting was going well, the artists persisted single-mindedly. Disregarding hunger, fatigue and discomfort –yet rapidly lost interest in the artistic creation once it had been completed. Flow research and theory had their origin in a desire to understand this phenomenon of intrinsically motivated, or autotelic, activity: activity rewarding in and for itself, quite apart from its end product or extrinsic good that might result from the activity. Being in “in flow” is the way that some interviews describe the describe the subjective experience of engaging jut-manageable challenges by tackling a series of goals, continuously processing feedback about progress, and adjusting action based on feedback. Under these conditions experience seamlessly unfolds from moment to moment, and one enters a subjective state with the following characteristics
* Intense and focused concentration on what one is doing in the present moment
* Merging action and awareness
* Loss of reflective self-consciousness (i.e., loss of awareness of oneself as a social sector)
* As sense that one can control’s actions; that is, a sense that one can in principle deal with the situation because one knows how to respond to whatever happens next
* Distortion of temporal experience (typically, a sense that time has passed faster than normal)
* Experience of the activity as intrinsically rewarding, such that often the end goal is just an excuse for the process. <ref>''Csikszentmihalyi, M.(2014). Flow and the foundations of positive psychology: the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Springer.''</ref>
== Diagram/schematic of theory ==
== Diagram/schematic of theory ==