Stage 5 · Lesson 7 of 7
Notice when you lose track of time
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi described flow: being so absorbed in a task that time disappears. It tends to happen when a task is a little harder than your current skill, has a clear goal and gives quick feedback, such as debugging code, playing music, designing something or solving a tricky problem.
Flow moments are some of the best clues about where your interests and strengths meet. Keep a short list each time it happens: what were you doing, what made it absorbing? Scrolling can feel absorbing too, but it rarely leaves you satisfied afterwards, which is a useful difference to notice.
Common trapexpecting flow from every task. Most work has boring parts; flow tells you which kinds of work are worth enduring the boring parts for.
A question to check yourself come when you add the roadmap to your account. Add it
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