How to get into flow at work? Match challenge with skills.

When your work is too hard for your skill you experience anxiety.

When your skill is too high for the work you experience boredom.

When your skill is matched with the challenge of the work then you can experience flow.

This simple framework comes from the deep insights of the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his book Good Business.

Match challenge with skills for flow at work

One way mirrors definitely do something, but a lot of what they accomplish is also due to maintaining dark on one side and light on another.

Dark and light are the keys to one-way mirrors

An observation I have made whenever I find myself feeling like facilitating is too hard work.