The Joy of Losing Yourself: Flow Fuels Focus and Fulfillment

The Joy of Losing Yourself: Flow Fuels Focus and Fulfillment

Flow is a state in which we feel fully focused, in the moment, and deeply alive. It requires us to fully engage our skills, and it can't be achieved if we keep checking our phones.

Sue Monk Kidd on Finding a Flow State in Writing

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The creative act of writing has brought meaning into my life in myriad ways, but it made itself known initially in the expe­rience of flow. I’m referring to the sense of personal fulfillment that comes from giving yourself over to something you feel you can belong to, setting a worthwhile and challenging goal, and then giving that goal your full attention, commit­ment, an…