It is the job of the manager to assign each individual the right tasks based on their skill levels. One great tool to achieve this level of productivity is the Flow State. As a manager of a Makers team (engineerings, designers, product managers, …), the goal is to make the team as happy and productive as possible. Now, let’s see how this can be used in the workplace. It is hard to achieve this balance as each player is unique with a unique set of skills and learning abilities. Balancing the difficulty with the player's skill enables game designers to keep players of various skill levels engaged. Similarly, if the game is too easy in comparison to the player’s skill they will get bored and disengaged. If the task’s difficulty relative to the player’s skill is too high, they will become frustrated and will stop playing. This is achieved by carefully aligning the difficulty of the game with the player’s skills. It is used to capture the player’s attention for hours at a time without effort. In video game design, this concept is well known and has been used to keep players engaged. Flow State is a mental time where your mind is over-performing.The Zone is a mental space where your mind is over-performing.The Zone and The Flow State are synonyms.Section Summary: what is the Flow state and the Zone: Time slows down, you are more focused and you can accomplish more. In this state, your mind is over-performing. Mihaly describes, in his book, the flow state as follows: “ the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.”. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the psychologist who coined this concept “Flow” and described it in the book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. It feels like you have accomplished days of work in a matter of mere hours, but at the same time, those hours felt like seconds. Hours can feel like seconds in the flow state. The Flow is a state where time seems to stop while simultaneously speeding up. Both are synonyms but I like to think about the Zone as a mental place and the Flow State as a mental time. What is the Zone? What is the Flow State?Įntering Flow State allows you to be in the Zone.
FLOWSTATE PRESENTATION MOVIE
The Zone was even a big part of the movie Soul from Pixar (Warning minor spoiler). When you start working on something you are passionate about at 8 PM, you blink, and it's 2 AM! What happened? Without realizing it you finished all your work, you were in The Zone. Engineers and artists will always say something along the lines of: "When I work on something interesting, I'm in the Zone", or "shhh!" if they currently are in it.
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