Applications of flow to work by Moneta, Giovanni B.

“…I don’t see myself as separate from what I am doing"), (3) loss of self-consciousness (e.g., "I am less aware of myself and my problems", (4) sense of control over one’s own actions (e.g., "I feel immensely strong"), (5) unambiguous feedback from the activity (e.g., "You don’t feel you have all sorts of different kinds of demands, often conflicting, upon you"), and (6) autotelic experience, that is, the sense that the activity is an end in itself, and hence runs independently of external rewards (e.g., "The act of writing justifies poetry"). …”
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