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Flow state

Published August 11, 2025 ·  All posts on Aug 11

Actu­al­ly, flow — the state of “effort­less effort” — was coined by Goethe, from the Ger­man “rausch”, a dizzy­ing sort of ecsta­sy.

Friedrich Niet­zsche and psy­chol­o­gist William James both con­sid­ered the flow state in depth, but social the­o­rist Mihaly Csik­szent­mi­ha­lyi, author of Cre­ativ­i­ty: Flow and the Psy­chol­o­gy of Dis­cov­ery and Inven­tion, is the true giant in the field.

~ from, How to Enter a ‘Flow State’ on Command: Peak Performance Mind Hack Explained in 7 Minutes

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A tidy tour of the history and current status of what we know about flow state.

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