What’s the goal here? The goal is to Balance Challenge and Skill to get into flow. Balancing Challenge and Skill is basically the meta-meta-skill. On a conceptual level, that’s what we’re always trying to do when we’re going after high quality experiences in life.

Here are the mental steps—the meta-skills—surrounding conscious flowcreation:

  1. Awareness of your current state
  2. Creating the Conditions of Flow
  3. Maintain your Flow — Check out the Four Factors of Flow and learn how you can use these factors to govern and control the levers of flow.
  4. Turnover and refresh yourself