How can you increase the amount of “flow” you experience at work?

“Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity.”

Increasing the amount of flow you experience is largely the result of using your unique talents, your “signature strengths.”

Via UPenn happiness expert Martin Seligman’s book, Authentic Happiness:

• Identify your signature strengths.
• Choose work that lets you use them every day.
• Recraft your present work to use your signature strengths more.
• If you are the employer, choose employees whose signature strengths mesh with the work they will do. If you are a manager, make room to allow employees to recraft the work within the bounds of your goals.

More on signature strengths here.

You can take Seligman’s test to determine your signature strengths here.

 
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