Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Psychological Flow Diagram as a Function of Skill and Challenge Levels, c. 2000
Csíkszentmihályi identifyed the following six factors as encompassing an experience of flow:
- Intense and focused concentration on the present moment
- Merging of action and awareness
- A loss of reflective self-consciousness
- A sense of personal control or agency over the situation or activity
- A distortion of temporal experience, one's subjective experience of time is altered
- Experience of the activity as intrinsically rewarding, also referred to as autotelic experience
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