Part 5: 'Flow' - A Special Case of I.M.

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Hailey Larsen

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  •  Flow - A Special Case of Intrinsic Motivation
    • Ultimate in Intrinsic Motivation:  FLOW
    • Lost in the moment are in the present, seeing & doing
    • Not stuck in the past or fixed on the future 
    • Can’t guarantee it will be there every time you perform
  • Definition of Flow
    • Sense of:
    • Total absorption in the activity
    • Merging of action & awareness
    • Loss of self-consciousness
    • A sense of control
    • Absence of extrinsic rewards
    • Effortless movement
  • Csikszentmihalyi’s (191, 2014) Model of “FLOW”
    • FLOW = intrinsically motivated activities where your skill meets the challenge in such a way as to provide "the" experience (in “the zone”)
    • If task too easy → Boredom
    • If task too hard → Anxiety
    • (optimal / peak arousal)