Getting into the flow of the mundane

IT DOESN’T happen to me very often — ‘flow’. Flow, in positive psychology, means being so completely immersed in your task, having such a full focus that even though the task might be complex, it’s enjoyable and you’re getting it done, writes Colm O’Regan

It’s also called ‘being in the zone’ but I prefer flow. ‘In the zone’ has connotations of rugby fly-halves in yoga-postions on the pitch spending so long on the penalty kick that you’ve time to make toast during the build-up.

Flow was coined by the Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. I would imagine he was probably inspired by the first time he managed to touch-type his own Scrabble-tastic surname.