Remember the last time you were "in the zone" where you became so immersed in something you loved that time disappeared and the work just simply flowed without much effort.
Maybe it was at work, or at play or being immersed in a favorite hobby. Regardless, it's one of those infrequent conditions that can contribute to life satisfaction.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hungarian-American psychologist formalized the condition with his 1990 book, "Flow", revealing his research on the nature and importance of finding something that can take you "into a zone" or what he called a "flow state".
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Gary Allen Foster is an executive recruiter, retirement and career transition coach, writer, and speaker. He is an over-70 portfolio-career guy and audacious ager dedicated to helping folks in the over-50 crowd adopt a new perspective on how to live longer, live better and with more purpose in the second half. He coaches, speaks and writes publicly on the issues of mid-life career transitions, planning for purposeful retirement and achieving better health and greater longevity.