The Lawyer’s Well-Being Brief

Unlocking the Power of Flow: A Practical Guide to Joy and Peak Performance

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”-Confucius

Welcome back or welcome to the Lawyer’s Well-being Brief. Each week, I share insights and practical tools to help us enhance our well-being and thrive in our personal and professional lives. This week, I am sharing tips on flow.

In his 1990 book Flow, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi introduced “flow.” It’s a state of complete immersion in an activity, where nothing else matters. He described it as “an experience so enjoyable that people will continue to do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.”

Sounds incredible, right? Could we use Flow to help us improve how we work and as a result help us improve our well-being?

Who was Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi?

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was a Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of “flow”, a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity. He was the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. Earlier, he served as the head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and…